Question to anyone who has already received the new Barks Library volume: which JW stories are included?
I don’t have the book - and, frankly, won’t be ordering it; this is what I believe to be Barks’s worst era - but I think it has the JW stories from #6-#8.
So they're still doing that nonsense with Junior Woodchucks stories illustrated by Jippes in the latest Barks books? Fantagraphics must really have no faith in a chronological collection of Barks' post-retirement stories.
Yes, it really is baffling. The Barks Library books seem to be Fantagraphics' best-selling books. Right now, 3 out of the 10 best-selling Fantagraphics books on Amazon are Barks Library volumes. If these books are selling this well, then surely 1 or 2 exclusively Barks/Jippes JW books would have sold well enough too.
So they're still doing that nonsense with Junior Woodchucks stories illustrated by Jippes in the latest Barks books? Fantagraphics must really have no faith in a chronological collection of Barks' post-retirement stories.
Yes, it really is baffling. The Barks Library books seem to be Fantagraphics' best-selling books. Right now, 3 out of the 10 best-selling Fantagraphics books on Amazon are Barks Library volumes. If these books are selling this well, then surely 1 or 2 exclusively Barks/Jippes JW books would have sold well enough too.
No doubt about that! It seems to me, that the type of people who collect Disney Comics, especially deluxe, hardbound editions, are organised, logical, people who would much prefer having ALL the Jippes-inked Barks JW stories displayed together in chronological order, rather than scattered as "extra features" in many different volumes, unrelated to those volumes' individual themes. When they want to read or research a question in one of the stories, they want to know right where that story is, and go right to it in seconds. They don't want to have to look in several different books to try to find that story. Or, if they want to read through the whole group of JW stories, they don't want to have to stop and move to several different books. That defeats the entire reason for buying the hard-bound series, in the first place, rather than having to find hundreds of individual books in their own soft comic book collection.
Agreed - including the Woodchucks stories now was a bad decision all round. And so, I wont be buying this or any future edition of the donald books. I'll stick with the Scrooges though. I'm a Gyro & Magica fan too, so Vol 26 looks extra good. But sadly, this means I'll only be getting ONE Barks vol. per year henceforth. Terrible! As a desparate alternative, I've taken to buying some of the French "Dynastie Donald Duck" series, of a few years back. That publisher [Glenat] had the sense to put the latter-day Woodchucks stories in their own separate volumes [which I avoid like the plague!]
Yes, it really is baffling. The Barks Library books seem to be Fantagraphics' best-selling books. Right now, 3 out of the 10 best-selling Fantagraphics books on Amazon are Barks Library volumes. If these books are selling this well, then surely 1 or 2 exclusively Barks/Jippes JW books would have sold well enough too.
But if they are really the best selling books why is it so difficult to manufacture boxes and put the four already released books in it and release them for the hardcore fans? We really need all the "old" missing books from #21 in box sets. They should be released asap, please in 2022 to finally catch up!
Not on the Junior Woodchucks subject, but does anyone know what the deal is with the 'Christmas in Duckburg' volume?
It's unavailable everywhere now, even though most of the older volumes are still in stock. Is it coming back at some point, or has something happened that I'm not aware of?
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But if they are really the best selling books why is it so difficult to manufacture boxes and put the four already released books in it and release them for the hardcore fans? We really need all the "old" missing books from #21 in box sets. They should be released asap, please in 2022 to finally catch up!
I think that Don Rosa’s books might be bigger sellers, especially anything related to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Counting its chronological inclusion in the Don Rosa Library, the series has three Fantagraphics releases!
Question to anyone who has already received the new Barks Library volume: which JW stories are included?
As tashlinfan44 says, it's the five Barks stories from HDL JW 6-8. Joe Torcivia says that on his blog.
Mine arrived yesterday. The titles of the five JW stories are: (1) Peril of The Black Forest, (2) Whale of a Good Deed, (3) Let Sleeping Bones Lie, (4) Bad Day For Troop "A", (5) Life Savers.
As tashlinfan44 says, it's the five Barks stories from HDL JW 6-8. Joe Torcivia says that on his blog.
Mine arrived yesterday. The titles of the five JW stories are: (1) Peril of The Black Forest, (2) Whale of a Good Deed, (3) Let Sleeping Bones Lie, (4) Bad Day For Troop "A", (5) Life Savers.
Are those all the (Jippes drawn) Woodchuck stories?
Not on the Junior Woodchucks subject, but does anyone know what the deal is with the 'Christmas in Duckburg' volume?
It's unavailable everywhere now, even though most of the older volumes are still in stock. Is it coming back at some point, or has something happened that I'm not aware of?
That's collecting for 'ya. There are always overproduced volumes (usually the first volumes) a series and "under produced" ones (usually the last, when people lost interest). I guess that it has to do with the Christmas season that's coming. We don't know if Fantagraphics still reprints old volumes or is selling out it's stock. Probably a bit of both...
'Christmas in Duckburg' is from 2019, 'Christmas in Shacktown' is from 2012 and appears to be still in stock. Maybe interest is declining. Let's hope this series will finish!
Maybe interest is declining. Let's hope this series will finish!
Even if it is declining, the interest is still big compared to other Fantagraphics publications. Among the many upcoming Fantagraphics books you can pre-order on Amazon, the Barks Library Vol. 26 (coming in May) is the number 1 bestselling right now.
Mine arrived yesterday. The titles of the five JW stories are: (1) Peril of The Black Forest, (2) Whale of a Good Deed, (3) Let Sleeping Bones Lie, (4) Bad Day For Troop "A", (5) Life Savers.
Are those all the (Jippes drawn) Woodchuck stories?
Not even close! If my memory serves me correctly there are 25+ altogether. He was the main scriptor for Gold Key Comics' "Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Junior Woodchucks" comic books #6-25, from 1969 through 1974, which were finished (final pencils and inks) by Tony Strobl and Kay Wright.
Are those all the (Jippes drawn) Woodchuck stories?
Not even close! If my memory serves me correctly there are 25+ altogether. He was the main scriptor for Gold Key Comics' "Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Junior Woodchucks" comic books #6-25, from 1969 through 1974, which were finished (final pencils and inks) by Tony Strobl and Kay Wright.
Yeah, there are tons more to go. Fanta's treatment of these stories is really stupid. I guess they reason that people don't want to sit through all these environmentalist stories in one go (well, interspersed with a few standard Donald Duck tales). But people who are actually interested in Barks' post-retirement work would probably much prefer that.
Don't recall if it's been mentioned, but how are the Junior Woodchucks stories colored in the books? Modern Egmont coloring?