Where did you pick up the restored second editions? Was it through the new boxset of the two censored volumes? If Fantagraphics has actually listened to the fans and course-corrected on this, I want to encourage them by buying the restored copies; thanks for letting us know.
But you know of course this means Disney has listened. Fantagraphics would have released them uncensored from the beginning if they had been allowed to.
Yes, that's correct, and makes me want to support Fantagraphics all the more, since I suspect the impetus to abandon the censorship policy came from them relaying the readers' complaints to Disney and using them as ammo to convince Disney to reverse course; I find it hard to believe that Disney would have changed its corporate mind of its own volition.
Where did you pick up the restored second editions? Was it through the new boxset of the two censored volumes? If Fantagraphics has actually listened to the fans and course-corrected on this, I want to encourage them by buying the restored copies; thanks for letting us know.
Yeah, the new boxset. I saw the following volumes not having censorship and hoped it was just a misstep on Disney's side. My hope was repaid. I'll try to take a couple of photos to show both the colophon and the restored pages. But I imagine the new single books bought should come from the new edition as they were already hard to find before reprinting meaning they were almost sold out. I could be wrong but I guess an easy way to confront the edition should be the Fantagraphics logo in the book spine. The 2nd edition has the Green logo.
I have a mix of first editions and reprints but mostly reprints (box sets preserve books better and for me living in Italy means only buying from shipping) and if there's a list of previous errors of sources used I can check if they changed something else between editions.
Thanks! I really appreciate the tip; it gives me hope we'll also see editions with the corrected "Bongo on the Congo" and the fully restored "Race to the South Seas" at some point, as well.
Post by gallopinggeargrinder on Nov 12, 2022 18:00:18 GMT
Guys, don't buy the second printing of Christmas in Duckburg, because yeah, they reinstalled the word Holocaust, but now apparently the story The Flying Farm Hand got blacklisted and is now deleted for this edition. Thanks Disney! The world is a much safer place now
Very sad news from the Carl Barks - The Good Artist Facebook group: Although the second printing of "Christmas in Duckburg" restores previously-censored text, an ENTIRE STORY is now eliminated compared with the first printing! Which story might that be? The Grandma Duck entry "The Flying Farm Hand", which guest-stars Brer Fox from the Brer Rabbit universe. Brer Rabbit and his cohorts of course come from Song of the South... so there's no mystery as to why the story has suddenly been removed, despite being included in the book's first printing from 2019.
A page from "The Flying Farm Hand" as seen in the 2019 printing:
Below are excerpts of the contents lists in the first and second printings. As you can see, "The Flying Farmhand" is gone in printing #2. First printing, 2019.
Second printing, 2022 (albeit labeled January 2023 in the indicia). Photo by a member of the Carl Barks - The Good Artist Facebook group.
Guys, don't buy the second printing of Christmas in Duckburg, because yeah, they reinstalled the word Holocaust, but now apparently the story The Flying Farm Hand got blacklisted and is now deleted for this edition. Thanks Disney! The world is a much safer place now
Woops! I started writing my own post about this over an hour ago, then went back-and-forth on it between doing other things, and didn't check if someone else had mentioned it in the meantime. Ah well.
Actually though, sad as it is, the only way people can currently get this material completely uncensored is to buy and hang on to BOTH the first and second printings of "Christmas in Duckburg". But yeah, let's hope there eventually is a third printing with nothing left out or altered.
My gosh, but Disney is a dysfunctional organization; it seems like which stories make it under the radar and which stories get flagged really depends on whoever happens to be hanging around the censors' office on any given day. Admittedly, if I had to choose between a volume that has dialogue altered in stories which Barks wrote and drew, and a volume that omits a very weak story which Barks didn't write, I'd pick the latter, but it's still extremely frustrating. Has anyone got any further word on what is/isn't in the second edition of "Under the Polar Ice"? That one had much heavier censorship in its first printing than "Christmas in Duckburg" did.
My gosh, but Disney is a dysfunctional organization; it seems like which stories make it under the radar and which stories get flagged really depends on whoever happens to hanging around the censors' office on any given day. Admittedly, if I had to choose between a volume which has dialogue altered in stories which Barks wrote and drew, and a volume that omits a very weak story which Barks didn't write, I'd pick the latter, but it's still extremely frustrating. Has anyone got any further word on "Under the Polar Ice"? That one had much heavier censorship than "Christmas in Duckburg" did.
No one has mentioned anything on Facebook about the second printing of "Under the Polar Ice" missing anything. So hopefully, the material is all intact. (The second printing of that volume is actually labeled a "Second edition" in the indicia, clearly because so many alterations were made to Barks' text in the first printing.)
The Brer Rabbit characters have been an especially touchy subject for Disney over the past couple of years, actually more so now than in 2019. In mid-2020, Disney announced that they were getting rid of the Splash Mountain attraction based on Song of the South in their theme parks. And on June 4, 2021, Disney artist Massimo Fecchi wrote on Instagram that he was in the process of drawing his last Li'l Bad Wolf comics story which could guest star Brer Bear, because Disney had suddenly decided to ban all the Song of the South characters from new comics stories. Things have changed very quickly. We can only hope Disney reverts their stance somewhat with time, so that older stories can at least be reprinted in books aimed at collectors.
Disney will never revert their stance but all these characters and stories will enter public domain sooner or later and then a sane company can re-release everything Song of the South related.