Now that the Don Rosa library has completed, is there any other creatures that have a likelihood of getting their library series of books? who do you guys think and how many volumes do you guys predict?
I would like to see a collected edition of the last few years of the Mickey Mouse newspaper strip of the 90s, when it switched to continuities again. Two books should probably be enough to cover it all, or perhaps one big book.
I would love to buy the sunday newspaper strips from after Gottfredson. They were drawn by Manuel Gonzales and are pretty cool. And of course I hope they dont forget to publish the remaining Donald duck newspaper strips dailies and sundays.
I'm honestly a bit surprised that the Taliaferro Donald Duck strip went to IDW. I enjoyed much of this material growing up, but we're talking 30 years of gag strips. Is such a series really viable to be collected in complete form in the deluxe format of IDW's "Library of American Comics" imprint? I get the feeling that IDW flooded the market a bit by launching all their LOAC Disney book series at the same time, with the result that some of them were cancelled prematurely. (And even though there hasn't been a cancellation announcement for them, I'm guessing the Taliaferro Sunday books were put on hold because their sales weren't the best.)
I wish Fantagraphics would pick up on the French series of albums continuing after "Mickey's Craziest Adventures" and "A Mysterious Melody".
Other series that would have been nice to have collected are the Millennium Orb and Mythos Island series from Gemstones WDC run. That wouldn't be an expensive project to have collected and they could be standalone books and not part of any series.
how many volumes would you guys think a Van horn or Jipps library would need?
A Van Horn Library would need around 12 volumes, I believe. Unfortunately it's never going to happen. What should happen and should have already happened is Disney Masters volume dedicated to Van Horn. Several Scarpa and Murry volumes before a single Van Horn volume? What on Earth are they thinking??
how many volumes would you guys think a Van horn or Jipps library would need?
A Van Horn Library would need around 12 volumes, I believe. Unfortunately it's never going to happen. What should happen and should have already happened is Disney Masters volume dedicated to Van Horn. Several Scarpa and Murry volumes before a single Van Horn volume? What on Earth are they thinking??
That William Van Horn had gotten more exposure when they first started Disney Masters than a few of the other artists, maybe? Around the time they started, William Van Horn’s DuckTales stories had just been reprinted in the DuckTales Classics first (and sadly, only) volume. Maybe they didn’t want to burn the public out on Van Horn’s work? Just a guess.
the masters wiki page shows 13 volumes scheduled and seems non are Van Horn, so maybe they are saving him for a complete library edition like Barks and Rosa.
how many volumes would you guys think a Van horn or Jipps library would need?
A Van Horn Library would need around 12 volumes, I believe. Unfortunately it's never going to happen. What should happen and should have already happened is Disney Masters volume dedicated to Van Horn. Several Scarpa and Murry volumes before a single Van Horn volume? What on Earth are they thinking??
(And right now, the frequency of the Disney Masters releases has slowed down, with the next volume set to come out in May 2020. Maybe a Van Horn book happens at some point later.)
was ever explained why the carl barks library edition had a smaller size than the gladstone books or the don rosa library?
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The message it seems to send (which I don't like) is that Don Rosa is considered more "important" than Barks, and thus his Library series gets a bigger format, nicer colors, better editorial treatment, etc.
I doubt this was really Fantagraphics' intention to imply, but it's hard not to look at the Library editions for these two artists and conclude that one of them got a much nicer edition. To be fair, though, the difference in sizes is probably to some extent coincidental. Most likely it has a lot to do with Fantagraphics starting the Barks Library first, and later realizing that a larger format would be nice when they did the Don Rosa books. It might also have to do with Rosa stuffing his panels with so many details (and cramming more and more panels into each page as his career progressed). But really, the Barks library should have been in the same format.