then I see no point in preordering it now, I try to avoid purchases during holidays, I tend to get opened packages then, they probably check more stuff because people try to smuggle stuff in holiday overloads of mail
Update; yep, both boxsets are coming out mid december. I dont know why every year they get announced for october and then I end up reading them in january
Ah, if the books I ordered won't be published until the middle of December, then that is really a problem. I may not be in Australia at that time, and it's impossible to change shipping address now. I guess it might be the last time I pre-order anything.
I pre-ordered this years Barks boxset on book depository, when it got out it was half a pound cheaper then on pre-order, it is still cheaper than other boxsets
All Disney comic collections from Fantagraphics will be made available digitally on Comixology starting tomorrow. This news comes from their twitter page.
Awesome! I read more digital comics than print these days -- I like to read on the metro or the train, and with my tablet I can have an entire book collection and a small comic book collection with me, and not have to drag five bags around.
By the way, I remember reading "Trick or Treat" when I was... I think around six or seven; it was a Christmas and my family knew I liked reading comics, so I got this huge book with fourteen of Carl Barks's longer stories. "Trick or Treat" was one of those stories, and it was actually the first time I ever heard about the concept of trick-or-treating, which wasn't a thing here in Norway at the time -- Halloween was barely a thing at all, other than a day that was marked off on the calendar but nobody actually celebrated. So "Trick or Treat" was actually the first Halloween story I ever read. Guess that's why I still have a certain fondness for it.
Even now I like how it's all Halloweeny and dark with witches and ghosts and stuff, but unlike so many "Halloween specials" it never tries to pretend it's a horror story.
Just the book I am reading these last couple of days! How come in this book, panels are smaller on first pages of stories, in every other book they are normal
Awesome! I read more digital comics than print these days -- I like to read on the metro or the train, and with my tablet I can have an entire book collection and a small comic book collection with me, and not have to drag five bags around.
By the way, I remember reading "Trick or Treat" when I was... I think around six or seven; it was a Christmas and my family knew I liked reading comics, so I got this huge book with fourteen of Carl Barks's longer stories. "Trick or Treat" was one of those stories, and it was actually the first time I ever heard about the concept of trick-or-treating, which wasn't a thing here in Norway at the time -- Halloween was barely a thing at all, other than a day that was marked off on the calendar but nobody actually celebrated. So "Trick or Treat" was actually the first Halloween story I ever read. Guess that's why I still have a certain fondness for it.
Even now I like how it's all Halloweeny and dark with witches and ghosts and stuff, but unlike so many "Halloween specials" it never tries to pretend it's a horror story.
No. It's more like a "masquerade ("masked") ball", Carnival, or Mardis Gras than a horror show.
That's a good news. From two years ago I began to transform from a paperback book collector to a digital book reader. Back then I could only bring a few books with me, leaving most of my collections in my parents' house. A Kindle is way much lighter than many of these books, though it's not a device to read comics, I still have my phone.
I think I will keep buying the library series, but may consider digital books for that "Disney master" series.
One more thing is there any approximation of how many Uncle Scrooge books there will be all together? ...
In the original 30 volume set Carl Barks Library (Black & White) that came out in the '80s & '90s there where 9 volumes dedicated to UNCLE SCROOGE.
Seeing that the Fantagraphics set is also to be 30 volumes as well we can assume around 8 or 9.
I would guess more like 10, given that The Carl Barks Library had 3 "Duck Family" volumes, which were considered neither "Donald Duck", nor "Uncle Scrooge" titled books. Many of those stories starred Uncle Scrooge, and so, will fall in the "Uncle Scrooge" category in Fantagraphics' set, which will have only "Donald Duck" and "Uncle Scrooge".
I have a question : All stories have very specyfic color style... With one exeption being "Old California" which is completle difrent coloring style. Do someboy know the reason behind this?
I have all books from ""Christmas on Bear Mountain" to "The Seven Cities of Gold" (tu put in chronological order) and I think they are fantastic and great way to explore how Barks style and world develope. The only thing I didn't like was in "The Golden Fleecing" where Donald talk how Scrooge eyes turn lemon but they where still white.
Know as Maciej Kur, Mr. M., Maik, Maiki, Pan, Pan Miluś and many other names.
I can vouch for "squeakyboots". One of my comp copies from Fantagraphics is exactly as he describes: color printing mode is totally off, especially in "Land of the Pygmy Indians". My other copy, however, is just fine. There must be a bad batch from the printer.