Anyway, if I were Fantagraphics, I would have simply sent a censored copy to the Disney censors and printed all other copies without the censorship. Disney doesn't really care about the comics, so they would have NEVER realized the mischief.
No. That would get Fantagraphics into very huge trouble if Disney found out which is actually a lot more likely than you probably think.
I just finished reading “Polar Ice”. I believe it’s been noted how miss & hit the story notes are but Craig Fischer’s Daisy Duck story notes are a new nadir. 2 pages of negative psychobabble analyzing Bark’s conflicting gender messaging in what “Barks wrote” yet *none* of these were written by him. Complete waste of space SMH.
I just finished reading “Polar Ice”. I believe it’s been noted how miss & hit the story notes are but Craig Fischer’s Daisy Duck story notes are a new nadir. 2 pages of negative psychobabble analyzing Bark’s conflicting gender messaging in what “Barks wrote” yet *none* of these were written by him. Complete waste of space SMH.
Sigh. Good to hear the "Barks experts" doing these are in as fine a form as ever.
Is Joseph Cowles still writing synopses of the stories instead of articles about them, btw?
A somewhat off-topic question, but did not want to start a whole thread just for this question: Does anyone have Barks' full script of Horsing Around With History? I fould a photo of the first page online but would like to read the whole thing.
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Balloonatics": The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 25
"A loony balloon, a fraidy falcon, and a new Woodchuck series! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous puzzlements, and all-around comics brilliance.
Carl Barks's stories of the Junior Woodchucks starring Huey, Dewey, and Louie ― written and penciled by Barks with finishes by internationally acclaimed Duck artist Daan Jippes ― debut in this volume! Other stories include: When Gyro Gearloose invents a ten-story-tall Donald Duck balloon ― bigger than anything ever seen at the Macy's Parade! ― Donald decides to take a ride. But Gyro’s "new balloon gas" is stronger than he thought it was, and Donald finds himself out of control, sailing higher and higher, until… Then, Huey, Dewey, and Louie try to help a "fraidy falcon" overcome his fear of flying by getting Donald to help, but Donald has his own ideas… Next, somebody's blowing up experimental rockets at the launchpad, and the nephews are on the trail of the spy, but Donald’s sure of who it's not ― until he finds himself on board the next rocket to blast-off… 180 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Full color"
What?? How come this volume containing mainly stories from the early 1960s will include JW stories Barks wrote in the 1970s?
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Balloonatics": The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 25
"A loony balloon, a fraidy falcon, and a new Woodchuck series! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous puzzlements, and all-around comics brilliance.
Carl Barks's stories of the Junior Woodchucks starring Huey, Dewey, and Louie ― written and penciled by Barks with finishes by internationally acclaimed Duck artist Daan Jippes ― debut in this volume! Other stories include: When Gyro Gearloose invents a ten-story-tall Donald Duck balloon ― bigger than anything ever seen at the Macy's Parade! ― Donald decides to take a ride. But Gyro’s "new balloon gas" is stronger than he thought it was, and Donald finds himself out of control, sailing higher and higher, until… Then, Huey, Dewey, and Louie try to help a "fraidy falcon" overcome his fear of flying by getting Donald to help, but Donald has his own ideas… Next, somebody's blowing up experimental rockets at the launchpad, and the nephews are on the trail of the spy, but Donald’s sure of who it's not ― until he finds himself on board the next rocket to blast-off… 180 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Full color"
What?? How come this volume containing mainly stories from the early 1960s will include JW stories Barks wrote in the 1970s?
My guess would be because these are the non-Scrooge stories from this era and we're outnumbered in quantity by Scrooge stories during this time. the final Uncle Scrooge stories will be in an 'Uncle Scrooge's volume with 'King Scrooge the 1st' and such.
"My guess would be because these are the non-Scrooge stories from this era and we're outnumbered in quantity by Scrooge stories during this time. the final Uncle Scrooge stories will be in an 'Uncle Scrooge's volume with 'King Scrooge the 1st' and such"
The WDC&S 10-pagers all appeared in the Donald Duck volumes so far and Barks created enough WDC&S 10-pagers in the 1960s to fill several volumes, so that can't be the reason.
My guess would be that they don't think these Woodchuck stories can sell volumes on their own, so they're spreading them across a bunch of Donald volumes instead of saving them for chronologically accurate Woodchuck-only collections.
My guess would be that they don't think these Woodchuck stories can sell volumes on their own, so they're spreading them across a bunch of Donald volumes instead of saving them for chronologically accurate Woodchuck-only collections.
Possible, and sad. Would this be based primarily on the sales numbers for the Gemstone “Donald Duck Family: The Daan Jippes Collection vol 1”? Seems to me Fantagraphics could do a better job finding buyers for a JW Barks/Jippes book, given the Barks series. But perhaps they feel that’s not the case.
Spreading the Jippes-drawn Junior Woodchucks stories across the volumes of (much earlier) regular Barks comics is a bizarre decision. But after what happened with Vol. 23, maybe I shouldn't be surprised by ANYTHING where this library is concerned.
By the way... caballero, could you link to Vol. 25 on Amazon? I can't find it.
As someone not living in the US, what's the likelihood of the Complete Life and Times Deluxe being restricted to US sales? I don't know if that's a thing that happens often, but would it be a good idea to wait for an Amazon UK listing or should I be launching at that as soon as pre-orders go up?
I remember having to use Amazon USA to get my hands on a collector's item before that never went up for sale on Amazon UK (Though they do have listings there).
I launched at it then and it was the right decision - though the extra cost for shipping and import charges was a pain. Does anyone know how limited the release is supposed to be? Taking the coin into account, I'd imagine it's not going to be widely available.
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I am waiting for the reviews of the next volume (Island in the Sky, scheduled for release March 16th) to see if Fantagraphics is continuing its new censorship policies (unfortunately, given the repressive politico-economic environment in this country, I can't see them stopping the censorship). This will be the first volume in this series that I haven't pre-ordered; if, as I assume, the censorship is continuing, I'm done with this series, and sticking to the Another Rainbow set (which has much, much better supplementary material anyway). My only regret is that we'll never get to see an uncensored hardback reprinting of "Treasure of Marco Polo"; by my reckoning, that story and "Bongo on the Congo" are the only two Barks stories which were censored in the Another Rainbow set but haven't been reprinted in the earlier uncensored Fantagraphics volumes.
Howevever, given how erratically the last volume of the Fantagraphics volume was censored (i.e., the dialogue of the real Indians in "Black Wednesday" being left untouched, while the dialogue of the role-playing fake-Indian tourists in "Riding the Pony Express" was censored), who knows but what we'll get "Treasure of Marco Polo" intact, while random lines are removed from other stories (like the "woman drivers" one-liner in "Queen of the Wild Dog Pack" or the references to the McViper clan shooting up the town every night in "Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad.")
People have every right to be upset about censorship or any changes made in deference to contemporary sensibilities...but could we please not attribute those policies to Fantagraphics? I have zero inside knowledge, but it seems to me far more likely that it's corporate Disney enforcing these changes. Isn't that what the situation has been in the past regarding Disney comics in the USA? Far more likely that corporate Disney would suddenly come up with new restrictions or requirements, depending on who is tasked to look at what and on how the corporation-wide policies are evolving, than it is that the same people at Fantagraphics who have been involved all along would change their policy in the middle of an ongoing series.
!960 was rather light on WDC&S stories. There should probably also be another "Daisy Duck's Diary" issue and maybe the 1961 "Grandma Duck's Farm Friends" Barks illustrated. The Woodchuck stories are likely being thrown in now in small doses as extras rather than in one large clump as the final volume.