Without having seen any statistics I have a feeling a lot of the Fantagraphics hardcovers are sold outside the USA. So I hope that is in the mind when compiling these books, and judging by the first three it looks like it is.
The Scarpa and Bottaro books both have stories rarely reprinted in Europe making them a lot more interesting for European readers (a definite buy for me). And when doing a Murry-book I like the approach with publishing the first serials chronologically instead of going for a subjective "best of" collection (especially hard to do for Murry I think).
Although I agree that a Milton/Jippes collection belong in a series like this, it is of less interest to me personally. I already have multiple copies of all stories and the "many years ago" = Gladstone American prints are still easy and cheap to get hold of. I'll probably end up getting this book too, but a Van Horn book that several people on this forum seems to want I'd probably skip.
So I hope future books will continue to have something new and interesting for old time fans too, including rarely reprinted or odd stories and not just a "best of" compilation.
Although I agree that a Milton/Jippes collection belong in a series like this, it is of less interest to me personally. I already have multiple copies of all stories and the "many years ago" = Gladstone American prints are still easy and cheap to get hold of. I'll probably end up getting this book too, but a Van Horn book that several people on this forum seems to want I'd probably skip.
Yes, but for an Italian reader is different: Bottaro and Scarpa are easy to get, any of their stories have multiple republications (Scarpa even a library). But Milton/Jippes had no "hall of fame" book so far in Italy (there was a recent issue of Tesori International on Jippes's work based on Barks' scripts, but Milton is definitely considered a minor author in Italy). So their early stories are hard to find, as they were published only once on Zio Paperone in the late 90's or early 2000's...and not even all of them! In France the situation is similar, maybe even worse.
What I'm mostly surprised by is the release schedule. The first 4 books are currently planned for May, June, July and August next year. So it looks like we'll get a monthly hardcover series with more comic pages each month than all Disney comics from IDW combined (not counting trades and Timeless Tales).
Yeah. One book every month is pretty insane if that's really what the schedule is going to be. Especially since there's still Carl Barks and Don Rosa Library volumes coming out alongside these.
Being Fantagraphics, don't trust the release date until a few weeks before or unless someone confirms they have a copy. For example: I see now that the final Gottfredson collection has been pushed to December, mostly because of the penultimate volume's 3-month delay.
Thank's for the link! "Now, by popular demand, Fantagraphics collects Jippes and Miltons classic teamups" Umm, I have never seen popular demand for Jippes comics, on the other hand, my insect antennae are telling me there is a clear popular demand for more Van Horn stories. Unfortunately, I sense that American Disney comic editors dislike his stories for some reason...
I want to say that I think the point alexoni97 was trying to make is that stuff like Van Horn 10 pagers could be better left to the IDW monthly issues while these hardcovers should prioritize longer stories that don't work as well in the monthly 20 page format and that he just picked a bad way to convey that.
Either way, I'm sure a Van Horn book will turn up at some point because not to discredit any Italian creators but Van Horn's stuff is very great from what I've read of it over the years. Just like iggy said, they capture the spirit of Barks' 10 pagers very effectively.
Yup this was the essence of my point, albeit I admit Van Horn stories are by far not my favorite, but I am pretty sure a book with his stories will pop up at some time, be it IDW, Fantagraphics or somebody else and of course I will buy that book (OCD of course plays a role, but I would like to check out what his best of are considered to be)
Thank's for the link! "Now, by popular demand, Fantagraphics collects Jippes and Miltons classic teamups" Umm, I have never seen popular demand for Jippes comics, on the other hand, my insect antennae are telling me there is a clear popular demand for more Van Horn stories. Unfortunately, I sense that American Disney comic editors dislike his stories for some reason...
The Daan Jippes/Freddy Milton team ups are some of the best 10-pagers since Carl Barks' run. They capture the essence and energy of the best 10-page stories without feeling like retreads, in my opinion.
My two cents: I'm not sure where the notion that the U.S. editors dislike William Van Horn comes from—really, he's been a permanent regular fixture of the books since 1989, and most of the editors love him personally—but I can tell you that the quality of his most recent work is not up to the standards of his classic work. They tend to follow a pattern of "Donald wanders aimlessly causing chaos for eight to ten pages" and have none of the snappy dialogue and verve we're accustomed to; maybe the Egmont machine finally wore him down. Readers repeatedly complained in the old days that Van Horn took up too many pages, but given that he was the best of the modern North American Disney cartoonists, I always felt the guy should get as much exposure as possible. With the quality of his new stories mostly taking a dip, it's no longer justifiable printing him on a monthly schedule when there's better work to choose from (IDW has published quite a few great ones by him, of course).
All of that said... that has nothing to do with the Disney Masters series having a volume of stories by William Van Horn, who'd be a very worthy inclusion. But I would say there's a very good chance...
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Oct 9, 2017 8:05:04 GMT
As a matter of fact, if any, one could complain of the exact opposite: the late Van Horn seems to find his way in the funnel of US comics books more because of him being American (and having a little American fan base) than for the quality of his stories. Which is low lately, people, let's say it. NOTA BENE: I am not complaining about this - I do not discuss editorial choices, expecially of comic books that I usually don't buy. (How hypocrital that would be of me!). I am just saying, if any...
EDIT: just given a look to inducks and realized that the above comment applies to the Gemstone years much more than on the recent (never enough cherished) IDW run...