So the 75th anniversary of Scrooge's first appearance will be this December, and I am sure at least Egmont is planning a story for this event. What kind of new story (or book) would you like to see for this anniversary? Remember, the big story for his 50th anniversary was Rosa's "A Little Something Special", and Egmont's first collected publication of the "Life of Scrooge" was also published for that event in 1997 in Scandinavian countries and Finland.
My wish is a long, serious new "Life of Scrooge" chapter that is 100% faithful to Rosa and Barks. (No silly business such as "A Christmas Crossing"!)
1) in the spirit of the publication of the L&T in 1997--a publication of all Korhonen's stories on Scrooge's early life in one volume (though of course he might be planning a bunch more....)--in a language I can read! This could include Sukulaissieluja, for the flashback.
2) the first official publication of a Sarah Jolley story (one with Scrooge in it)
3) a story where Scrooge needs to make a tour of the solar system for some reason, and interacts with Muchkale of Venus on his home territory, the Martians who showed up in "Lost Beneath the Sea" on *their* home territory, the Islanders in the Sky (asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter), the Jovians of Jupiter, Rebo and his generals on Saturn, the Astromites on the moons of Neptune, and possibly the folks on the Dream Planet beyond Pluto.
4) a story where Ducky Bird comes to Duckburg for a rodeo and Katie Mallard comes along to cheer for her and to visit Scrooge, and Things Happen. Nothing particularly anniversary-ish about that, it's just a story I want to see! Without any suggestion that Katie and Scrooge were an item, please. But I do want them sharing tall tales of the Klondike with flashbacks at some point.
Ramapith An idea for Fantagraphics for Scrooge's 75 anniversary: A book collecting Christmas on Bear Mountain and all its sequels and related stories for the first time ever. So:
Ramapith An idea for Fantagraphics for Scrooge's 75 anniversary: A book collecting Christmas on Bear Mountain and all its sequels and related stories for the first time ever. So:
Would a story that just uses the Bear Mountain cabin as a setting count? Then you could include my favorite Magica Christmas story, Per Hedman's Christmas Magic.
I think this is a super-appropriate plan for the 75th!
Also, any anniversary special for the event will obviously have to include Barks's one-pager later titled Watt an Occasion --if there is no anniversary special book, then every December regular issue should include this!
Ramapith An idea for Fantagraphics for Scrooge's 75 anniversary: A book collecting Christmas on Bear Mountain and all its sequels and related stories for the first time ever. So:
One Barks scrooge story completely redrawn in their own style/perspectives by multiple artists. I'm talking like redraw of for example Back to Klondike with each different artist taking on a page of panels. It will be chaotic for sure and comparations to Barks version and each other will be made but that's my wishful thinking as a fan. Of course for it to work, it'll need the artists' credits below each half pages they created, else the readers will be so confused. And the Barks original must be included. Back to Klondike is probably a bad choice as it is too iconic of a story, but other less iconic Scrooge stories idk like King of the Golden River would work.
For the record: fellas and gals, you're all psychics, because at the time Caballero and the rest of you suggested it, our Fantagraphics team already had a Bear Mountain anthology book planned for the anniversary.
I just couldn't announce it earlier because it hadn't been formally greenlit through all of the development/production channels; now it has. It may not contain everything all of you have suggested, but I can promise a really nice, wide variety of Bear Mountain-themed stories. Stay tuned for an announcement in the next several months.
Great news! Now I know what I'm getting a certain young relative for Christmas (as well as myself, obviously). I won't hold out for any particular non-Barks story to be included, but I do hope that the excellent cover of WDCS 608, Carl Barks/Bucky O'Neill/Susan Daigle-Leach, gets reproduced in or on this volume in all its glory. Amazing how the red-and-green coloring makes such an anti-Christmas cover look so Christmassy! And the starry sky-blue "comics" was a brilliant touch.
I'm very happy about this news, too! This is much more exciting than a "best of Scrooge" book, which I'm sure some other publishers around the globe will put together for Scrooge's 75th anniversary.
For the record: fellas and gals, you're all psychics, because at the time Caballero and the rest of you suggested it, our Fantagraphics team already had a Bear Mountain anthology book planned for the anniversary.
I just couldn't announce it earlier because it hadn't been formally greenlit through all of the development/production channels; now it has. It may not contain everything all of you have suggested, but I can promise a really nice, wide variety of Bear Mountain-themed stories. Stay tuned for an announcement in the next several months.
Would it be possible to share with us a rough estimation of when we can pre-order it or buy it? Thanks