Site Map
The original cuckoocomics.com carried a simple site map page from around 2008, listing every wing of the gallery. This restored version does the same for the archive, with a sentence on what you'll find behind each door.
The Galleries
- Home page — the story of Cuckoo Comics and the collector's philosophy that opened the original site.
- Welcome to the gallery — the restored 1999 welcome page: Cuckoo Collectibles, its four pillars, and the famous candlelit pan set-up.
- Vintage golden-age animation art — production cels and Courvoisier set-ups from the landmark features of 1937–1959.
- Other studios animation art — Fleischer Studios, Warner Bros., Carl Barks paintings, and theatrical paper.
- Animation drawings — graphite roughs, signed layout art, and story drawings, 1932–1959.
- Original cartoon movie posters — one-sheets, stock posters, stone lithography, and condition lore.
The Artists
- Concept art and color styling — the original gallery's biographies of Mary Blair, Eyvind Earle, and John Hench.
- Mary Blair and a very small world — the site's beloved essay on the World's Fair attraction and its designer.
- Carl Barks — the good duck artist, from unsigned comic books to signed watercolors.
- Eyvind Earle — the painter who styled a medieval epic and never stopped painting.
The Guides
- How animation cels were made — the production pipeline and the full collector's glossary.
- A collector's guide — research, provenance, condition, venues, framing, and care.
- Contact — corrections, collection stories, and research questions.
About the Original Site Map
The 2008 site map was a plain white page with midnight-blue links — six lines of text that mapped the entire gallery. This restoration deliberately preserves the original page addresses wherever they survived in the web archives: the gallery wings keep their original file names exactly as they were first published between 1999 and 2008, and the new guide pages follow the same lowercase naming convention the original site used. If you arrived here from an old bookmark, a forum post from twenty years ago, or a long-dormant link on a collector site, the page you remember should still answer at the same address.
A note on what is not here: the brief 2012 rebuild of the site, which announced a new version that never arrived, left behind only placeholder pages and has not been restored. The archive you are reading represents the site as it stood in its prime — one collector's gallery, generous with knowledge, quietly confident in its art, and signed off the way every page of the original was: all images remain the property of their respective studios.