Post by blot on Dec 19, 2019 6:46:19 GMT
As the Barks Library was the first Fantagraphics Disney Collection, I imagine they chose the smaller size for cost factors. By the time the Rosa Library came about, they went for the larger size and kept the same cover price. So I don't understand the reasoning of making the Barks books smaller. A terrible decision by Groth.
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www.cbr.com/exclusive-fantagraphics-to-publish-the-complete-carl-barks/
In an exclusive interview with Robot 6, Fantagraphics co-publisher Gary Groth revealed that the company – which announced their plans to publish Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics last summer – had acquired the rights to reprint Barks’ work from Disney and that the first volume will be released in fall of this year.
Q: Let’s go on to the books themselves. Can you tell me a little bit about the format, size and design? Who will be designing these books?
A: I think Jacob Covey is going to be designing them. He’s our lead designer here. In fact literally at this very moment he’s designing "Mickey Mouse Vol. 1." He’s designed a number of books for us, as you probably already know, like "Popeye" and "Dennis the Menace." He edited and designed “Beasts!” So he was my first choice to design the books.
They’re going to be reproduced – I don’t have the exact size – but they’re going to be reproduced at about 90 percent of comic book size. I don’t have that size off the top of my head, but it’s approximately 90-92 percent of comic book size. We are going to be recoloring every page. We’re using the original comics as our color guide. We’re going to be trying as best we can to reproduce the same colors. The reason we didn’t scan the comic books is we didn’t want it to be a facsimile edition like some of our reprints are. When you do that, it’s obvious that you are reproducing from the comic and there is a specific reason you do that, because you want to capture that old comic book look. Neither Disney nor we wanted to do that, but we both thought it would be best reproduced in color, so the question was how do you go about doing the color? So we’re using the original comics coloring, which is quite good, as a color guide, and an artist by the name of Rich Tommaso is going to be recoloring every page.
Jan 02, 2011
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www.cbr.com/exclusive-fantagraphics-to-publish-the-complete-carl-barks/
In an exclusive interview with Robot 6, Fantagraphics co-publisher Gary Groth revealed that the company – which announced their plans to publish Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics last summer – had acquired the rights to reprint Barks’ work from Disney and that the first volume will be released in fall of this year.
Q: Let’s go on to the books themselves. Can you tell me a little bit about the format, size and design? Who will be designing these books?
A: I think Jacob Covey is going to be designing them. He’s our lead designer here. In fact literally at this very moment he’s designing "Mickey Mouse Vol. 1." He’s designed a number of books for us, as you probably already know, like "Popeye" and "Dennis the Menace." He edited and designed “Beasts!” So he was my first choice to design the books.
They’re going to be reproduced – I don’t have the exact size – but they’re going to be reproduced at about 90 percent of comic book size. I don’t have that size off the top of my head, but it’s approximately 90-92 percent of comic book size. We are going to be recoloring every page. We’re using the original comics as our color guide. We’re going to be trying as best we can to reproduce the same colors. The reason we didn’t scan the comic books is we didn’t want it to be a facsimile edition like some of our reprints are. When you do that, it’s obvious that you are reproducing from the comic and there is a specific reason you do that, because you want to capture that old comic book look. Neither Disney nor we wanted to do that, but we both thought it would be best reproduced in color, so the question was how do you go about doing the color? So we’re using the original comics coloring, which is quite good, as a color guide, and an artist by the name of Rich Tommaso is going to be recoloring every page.
Jan 02, 2011