Boom also started a series called Walt Disney Treasury: Donald Duck that was collecting all the Rosa Donald stores which are now obsolete in favor of the Fantagraphics hardcovers. (Was there going to be a Walt Disney Treasury: Uncle Scrooge series as well? I guess we'll never know.)
Walt Disney Treasury was to have been a kind of rotating title at Boom. After the intended three Rosa Donald books (only two of which came out) there would have been two Jippes books—I know because I was asked to develop them, and had been gathering material when the axe fell.
Then would have come a couple of Rosa Scrooges and then some Scarpa and Strobl material.
That said: while I did some work on the Rosa Treasury books, I was unhappy with the basic plan to split the stories up by character, a decision made above our team that worked against Rosa's internal continuity. The current Fantagraphics Rosa Library volumes, presented in chronology and with Rosa supervising my creative team, represent the way I really want to see this material collected for posterity.
Call me crazy (but I'd prefer it if you called me Deb, actually), but I would have liked seeing a collection of Tony Strobl stories, especially if it included Donald in Mathmagic Land and This is Your Life, Donald Duck. But we have so much good stuff coming out now, it's hard to lament not having a few dusty old Tony Strobl stories...
Call me crazy (but I'd prefer it if you called me Deb, actually), but I would have liked seeing a collection of Tony Strobl stories, especially if it included Donald in Mathmagic Land and This is Your Life, Donald Duck. But we have so much good stuff coming out now, it's hard to lament not having a few dusty old Tony Strobl stories...
Strobl drew hundreds of Disney stories for Western and Disney Studio stories for "foreign markets", so, a "Tony Strobl Library" could have lots of volumes. But, from 1959 on, his own art deteriorated, and more importantly, his inkers' work was incredibly stiff and expressionless. So, I doubt that such a series would sell enough to warrant a hardback, or even a softback album series. Personally, I didn't like the quality of the story writing of the stories he drew after 1958 or early 1959. So, it's only his 194o's and 1950s work I would like, but I have all those stories in the original comic books. I'd only buy a hardbound series of his work from those years if I were a multi-millionaire (several times over), and, even then, I'd probably never have time in my remaining 29 years, to look at it.
Call me crazy (but I'd prefer it if you called me Deb, actually), but I would have liked seeing a collection of Tony Strobl stories, especially if it included Donald in Mathmagic Land and This is Your Life, Donald Duck. But we have so much good stuff coming out now, it's hard to lament not having a few dusty old Tony Strobl stories...
Strobl drew hundreds of Disney stories for Western and Disney Studio stories for "foreign markets", so, a "Tony Strobl Library" could have lots of volumes. But, from 1959 on, his own art deteriorated, and more importantly, his inkers' work was incredibly stiff and expressionless. So, I doubt that such a series would sell enough to warrant a hardback, or even a softback album series. Personally, I didn't like the quality of the story writing of the stories he drew after 1958 or early 1959. So, it's only his 194o's and 1950s work I would like, but I have all those stories in the original comic books. I'd only buy a hardbound series of his work from those years if I were a multi-millionaire (several times over), and, even then, I'd probably never have time in my remaining 29 years, to look at it.
Oh, goodness, I meant a "Best of", certainly not a complete collection.
Someone told me that when he was learning to draw comics professionally in 1964, he selected two contemporary Barks and Strobl stories—because he wanted to see what went into drawing a good comic book story, and what went into a bad one.
Any pages not spent on Strobl are pages well spent.
Strobl drew hundreds of Disney stories for Western and Disney Studio stories for "foreign markets", so, a "Tony Strobl Library" could have lots of volumes. But, from 1959 on, his own art deteriorated, and more importantly, his inkers' work was incredibly stiff and expressionless. So, I doubt that such a series would sell enough to warrant a hardback, or even a softback album series. Personally, I didn't like the quality of the story writing of the stories he drew after 1958 or early 1959. So, it's only his 194o's and 1950s work I would like, but I have all those stories in the original comic books. I'd only buy a hardbound series of his work from those years if I were a multi-millionaire (several times over), and, even then, I'd probably never have time in my remaining 29 years, to look at it.
Oh, goodness, I meant a "Best of", certainly not a complete collection.
There is already a Tony Strobl "Hall of Fame" book, but only printed in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and, perhaps one in the German series, as well (although I'm not sure if he has one in theirs).
Call me crazy (but I'd prefer it if you called me Deb, actually), but I would have liked seeing a collection of Tony Strobl stories, especially if it included Donald in Mathmagic Land and This is Your Life, Donald Duck. But we have so much good stuff coming out now, it's hard to lament not having a few dusty old Tony Strobl stories...
I'm certainly not calling you crazy. I like Strobl! I find it quite unbelievable that, for instance, The Golden Galleon has never been reprinted.