Site Map
This site map lists every wing of the gallery, with a sentence on what you will find behind each door.
The Galleries
- Home page — the story of Cuckoo Comics and the collector's philosophy that opened the period gallery.
- Welcome to the gallery — the 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 — 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 Site Map
The gallery is divided into collection rooms, artist essays, and practical guides. Use the sections above to move directly to a favorite medium, artist, or collecting question.
The archive concentrates on the collector gallery's most active period — a body of pages generous with knowledge, quietly confident in its art, and clear that all images remain the property of their respective studios.