Btw, I hope that once the series is finished, Fantagraphics will publish a "Best of Barks" book, similarly to the "Best of Gottfredson" book they have published. Or maybe two books in a slipcase. Another idea for a Barks book after the series is finished: a book containing all the Barks stories Rosa's Life of Scrooge was based on.
Btw, I hope that once the series is finished, Fantagraphics will publish a "Best of Barks" book, similarly to the "Best of Gottfredson" book they have published. [...]
They'd be crazy not to. I don't know how it is in your country but here in Holland (aka The Netherlands, Europe) re-issues of about 5 old comics (from 1950's to the 70's) in a hard cover volume with some written info on its history etc. are very popular. And rightly so. You can collect a complete series of a certain comic hero in a few beautifully produced volumes. You know: collecting the best memories of your youth. I think "Best Of" volumes must be also be selling quite well.
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?
It looks, to me, more like the Dutch current style, to me, not as bright as I recall the Egmont stories to be. But, I don't get many Egmont books, since they shut down our special department a few years ago, other than when I have a story printed in an Egmont book, and I usually don't read it, so I don't really know how their colouring is now. But it certainly isn't like the original US colouring in Gold Key Comics.
I’m a bit torn on those redrawn vs. original printings of the Junior Woodchucks stories. On one hand, Jippes’ art is far better at capturing a “Barks” look (but honestly, it still looks very “Jippes” as well) than the Kay Wright and Tony Strobl works were, but for a collection of books that is (mostly) trying to preserve the works as a part of comics history, the original artwork would be more historically accurate. The Jippes redrawns would be best presented in a Daan Jippes collection. If the series gets that far, we’re going to have quite the dilemma with “Somewhere in Nowhere”, for which there are two different versions, as well as all of the Jippes stories that were created with lost or unfinished Barks story ideas.
If the series gets that far, we’re going to have quite the dilemma with “Somewhere in Nowhere”, for which there are two different versions, as well as all of the Jippes stories that were created with lost or unfinished Barks story ideas.
I don't think “Somewhere in Nowhere” will be included in the Barks Library, it wasn't even included in the more deluxe European Carl Barks Collection. These are the late Barks works he wrote but did not draw I am expecting in this American Barks Library:
King Scrooge the First Pawns of the Loup Garou Officer for a Day A Day in a Duck's Life the 24 Junior Woodchucks stories Hang Gliders Be Hanged! Go Slowly, Sands of Time Horsing Around with History
If the series gets that far, we’re going to have quite the dilemma with “Somewhere in Nowhere”, for which there are two different versions, as well as all of the Jippes stories that were created with lost or unfinished Barks story ideas.
I don't think “Somewhere in Nowhere” will be included in the Barks Library, it wasn't even included in the more deluxe European Carl Barks Collection.
That was because of conflicts between Egmont and the managers of the Carl Barks Studio at the time the story was made, though. I don't think that necessarily has to affect Fantagraphics. Personally I think it could be very interesting to have both the long adventure version and the short gag version of "Somewhere in Nowhere" collected in one edition. While the short version made in 2010 is the one that reflects Barks' story synopsis accurately, the fact is that Barks was still involved with the 1997 version after his studio managers converted it to an adventure story, suggesting gags and consulting on Patrick Block's artwork.
Mesterius The reason neither version of “Somewhere in Nowhere” was included in the Carl Barks Collection is that Barks had barely anything to do with them. Unlike "Horsing Around with History" for exaple, for which he wrote a complete script.
Mesterius The reason neither version of “Somewhere in Nowhere” was included in the Carl Barks Collection is that Barks had barely anything to do with them. Unlike "Horsing Around with History" for exaple, for which he wrote a complete script.
He had more than "barely anything" to do with them. He wrote a complete synopsis for "Somewhere in Nowhere" as a Donald Duck ten-pager. That ten-pager provided the basis for the adventure tale John Lustig worked out in the late 90s, on which Barks consulted during production. And later on, Lustig did a short version drawn by Daan Jippes which was directly adapted from Barks' ten-pager synopsis.
Based on Barks' own involvement with it, "Somewhere in Nowhere" has as much right to be included in a Carl Barks Collection as the Egmont comics version of "Go Slowly, Sands of Time".
I’m a bit torn on those redrawn vs. original printings of the Junior Woodchucks stories. On one hand, Jippes’ art is far better at capturing a “Barks” look (but honestly, it still looks very “Jippes” as well) than the Kay Wright and Tony Strobl works were, but for a collection of books that is (mostly) trying to preserve the works as a part of comics history, the original artwork would be more historically accurate. The Jippes redrawns would be best presented in a Daan Jippes collection. If the series gets that far, we’re going to have quite the dilemma with “Somewhere in Nowhere”, for which there are two different versions, as well as all of the Jippes stories that were created with lost or unfinished Barks story ideas.
I don’t like seeing them here, either. They’re more Jippes than Jippes aping a ‘60s/‘70s Barks, and even more so, they’re the product of fannish Euro editors rewriting history because they think Tony Strobl and Kay Wright suck. That they may, but guess what: Barks didn’t draw ‘em, and that’s the way they were published originally. If they wanted to really one up the Another Rainbow set, they should have just run Barks’ scripts at a larger size in whole.
I’m a bit torn on those redrawn vs. original printings of the Junior Woodchucks stories. On one hand, Jippes’ art is far better at capturing a “Barks” look (but honestly, it still looks very “Jippes” as well) than the Kay Wright and Tony Strobl works were, but for a collection of books that is (mostly) trying to preserve the works as a part of comics history, the original artwork would be more historically accurate. The Jippes redrawns would be best presented in a Daan Jippes collection. If the series gets that far, we’re going to have quite the dilemma with “Somewhere in Nowhere”, for which there are two different versions, as well as all of the Jippes stories that were created with lost or unfinished Barks story ideas.
I don’t like seeing them here, either. They’re more Jippes than Jippes aping a ‘60s/‘70s Barks, and even more so, they’re the product of fannish Euro editors rewriting history because they think Tony Strobl and Kay Wright suck. That they may, but guess what: Barks didn’t draw ‘em, and that’s the way they were published originally. If they wanted to really one up the Another Rainbow set, they should have just run Barks’ scripts at a larger size in whole.
I also half-suspect that they ran them out of chronology partially to avoid another volume with almost half of the book being Grandma Duck’s Farm Friends and Daisy Duck’s Diary at the end of it. The next Donald Duck volume will likely have Barks’ last full issue of the Archie Comics wanna-be Daisy stories and probably more Jippes Woodchucks stories. This really was a puzzling editorial decision.
I should also say I quite like the as-published Strobl art for the trio of ‘60s Barks stories he drew. With all this adherence to “as originally published”, it’d be strange to not run them.