I bought volume 4 "Maharajah Donald" in The Netherlands (Europe) via Bol.com (= Dutch site). It arrived in 2 days. Looks like they have it in stock and do not have to import it from the US on order or have to use external "stores".
At the time of writing Blackwells in the UK has it available too.
Amazon Netherlands still doesn't have it. This is probably because of the hammering by environmental fundamentalists that do not want Amazon to ship books from far away (i.e. from the US to the EU) as reported previously here.
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Been a while since I've been on this forum. I managed to score a Fantagraphics copy of Lost In The Andes on Ebay for £20, in very good condition. Thought that was quite a score seeming as it is out of print. I saw another copy that was priced at $24.99 on the back cover, whereas mine has $28.99. Is there any meaningful difference between these two versions? Or did Fantagraphics just decide to price it at $4 higher and there is no difference whatsoever apart from price?
Production costs have been rising continuously since I've been an editor on the American comics (2005)—that's why the Gemstone comics rose from about $7 to about $9, and then why the IDW comics—which started with up to 40 comics pages per issue—eventually went down to around 32. And the same explains why the Fantagraphics Barks books started a little thicker, then slowly got a bit thinner and more expensive. (The current Vols 1-4 have to go back to the thicker length because they'd been pre-planned that way; that makes them a little more expensive still...)
The FGL volumes' production costs rose too, not just because of paper costs, but because sales slowed after the pie-eyed Mickey era ended. There I kept things under control by learning design software myself and designing most of books 6-7 and 9-12, freeing up the Fanta designers to work on bigger-budgeted projects.
It's just part of normal inflation, little as I like it... and this also explains, of course, why a later printing of a Fanta Barks book would have been priced higher than an earlier one.
Ramapith May I ask which softare you use for design? Adobe InDesign?
On a different note, I hope Fantagraphics will consider publishing a book of Barks's Disney paintings. That Another Rainbow one is impossible to find for a good price and the more recent European Barks paintings book is probably more comprehensive so it would be great if there were an English language version of that.
Production costs have been rising continuously since I've been an editor on the American comics (2005)—that's why the Gemstone comics rose from about $7 to about $9, and then why the IDW comics—which started with up to 40 comics pages per issue—eventually went down to around 32. And the same explains why the Fantagraphics Barks books started a little thicker, then slowly got a bit thinner and more expensive. (The current Vols 1-4 have to go back to the thicker length because they'd been pre-planned that way; that makes them a little more expensive still...)
The FGL volumes' production costs rose too, not just because of paper costs, but because sales slowed after the pie-eyed Mickey era ended. There I kept things under control by learning design software myself and designing most of books 6-7 and 9-12, freeing up the Fanta designers to work on bigger-budgeted projects.
It's just part of normal inflation, little as I like it... and this also explains, of course, why a later printing of a Fanta Barks book would have been priced higher than an earlier one.
To the best of my knowledge (I'm not the editor; I could be wrong), there aren't any differences, content-wise, between printings of "Lost in the Andes."
There may be a few slight color corrections in later printings, but that's minor stuff...
Ramapith May I ask which softare you use for design? Adobe InDesign?
On a different note, I hope Fantagraphics will consider publishing a book of Barks's Disney paintings. That Another Rainbow one is impossible to find for a good price and the more recent European Barks paintings book is probably more comprehensive so it would be great if there were an English language version of that.
That's a constant dream of mine! I wish to have a complete Carl Barks' oil book in English!
I just read that the first person Fantagraphics approached to oversee the Carl Barks Library was none other than Don Rosa! Wow. Rosa did not accept the offer because he does not consider himself "a Barks scholar on the par with people like Donald Ault". Imagine what could have been! For example there probably would have been dozens of essays by Don Rosa himself about all the great Carl Barks comics!
I just read that the first person Fantagraphics approached to oversee the Carl Barks Library was none other than Don Rosa! Wow. Rosa did not accept the offer because he does not consider himself "a Barks scholar on the par with people like Donald Ault". Imagine what could have been! For example there probably would have been dozens of essays by Don Rosa himself about all the great Carl Barks comics!
That would, indeed, have been great because I don't know who the hell Donald Ault is, nor do I care. What they do in the "essays" is summarize what the story is about, babble a bit and deliver no info, review or anything relevant. Lat a lone talk about the art, pen nibs, long beak period, short beak period, you know: nerdy stuff. Not that semi-intellectual snob stuff.
I would have loved to hear instead what a comic book artist thinks on a Barks story even if he's not "an expert".
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I just read that the first person Fantagraphics approached to oversee the Carl Barks Library was none other than Don Rosa! Wow. Rosa did not accept the offer because he does not consider himself "a Barks scholar on the par with people like Donald Ault". Imagine what could have been! For example there probably would have been dozens of essays by Don Rosa himself about all the great Carl Barks comics!
That would, indeed, have been great because I don't know who the hell Donald Ault is, not do I care.
Ault was one of the first literary scholars to treat comics as a true form of art. He interviewed Barks many times and was perhaps the first man in academia to declare him as a genius. There's no need to dismiss him like that.
That would, indeed, have been great because I don't know who the hell Donald Ault is, not do I care.
Ault was one of the first literary scholars to treat comics as a true form of art. He interviewed Barks many times and was perhaps the first man in academia to declare him as a genius. There's no need to dismiss him like that.
Oops, sorry. Now I understand the way he writes about Barks: more out of a literary standpoint than about the art on itself.
Is there any content that might need to be removed from the "The Lost Peg Leg Mine" volume? I think that one has gone the longest without a reprinting.