I remember reading somewhere ages ago that the plan is not to include the stuff Barks wrote but didn't draw, but I am hoping that the series is successful enough that they will change their mind. The Daan Jippes versions of the late Barks stories (24 JW stories + King Scrooge the First + Pawns of the Loup Garou + Officer for a Day + A Day in a Duck's Life + Jippes' version of The Pied Piper of Duckburg) are 402 pages total. Then there is Hang Gliders Be Hanged! and Go Slowly, Sands of Time from the 1980s, and Horsing Around with History from the 1990s. That's 44 more pages. Add Pluto Saves the Ship (51 pages) and you have around 500 pages of material Barks wrote but didn't draw. That's 3 extra volumes. I hope it will happen.
Personally, I would love to have a volume of the Barks/Jippes JW stories! We never even got all of those printed in English. What's the page count of just the JW stories? Would they fit in one volume?
Personally, I would love to have a volume of the Barks/Jippes JW stories! We never even got all of those printed in English. What's the page count of just the JW stories? Would they fit in one volume?
Same here! And all those other Barks written and storyboarded stories that Caballero mentioned above. We don't even have one Dutch series where we can find all those different stories. It's hard to remember in which books they all are.
There seem to have been endless attempts to reprint these Woodchuck stories in complete collections over the last fifteen years that have failed. Let’s be honest, despite Jippes’ beautiful improvements, these stories kinda suck. (Sorry, Carl, not your fault Chase Craig wouldn’t let you enjoy retirement in peace.) I’d rather see attention spent on the pure Barks we haven’t seen reprinted in recent years than this latter day stuff that no one can make sell.
There seem to have been endless attempts to reprint these Woodchuck stories in complete collections over the last fifteen years that have failed. Let’s be honest, despite Jippes’ beautiful improvements, these stories kinda suck. (Sorry, Carl, not your fault Chase Craig wouldn’t let you enjoy retirement in peace.) I’d rather see attention spent on the pure Barks we haven’t seen reprinted in recent years than this latter day stuff that no one can make sell.
Yes. They should start printing Barks' 1942-1947 stories now, and save the few remaining Dells and all the Gold Key stories for last.
There seem to have been endless attempts to reprint these Woodchuck stories in complete collections over the last fifteen years that have failed.
Could you elaborate on this? I know a second volume of Gemstone's "Donald Duck Family: The Daan Jippes Collection" was planned but never published. But I think the second volume was supposed to focus on the Milton stories (that ended up in Disney Masters #4) rather than more Barks stories like volume 1. And Gemstone stopped publishing all comics at that point. I haven't heard of any other failed attempts. I have a couple of European books collecting Jippes+Barks stories, and they seemed successful enough.
There seem to have been endless attempts to reprint these Woodchuck stories in complete collections over the last fifteen years that have failed. Let’s be honest, despite Jippes’ beautiful improvements, these stories kinda suck. (Sorry, Carl, not your fault Chase Craig wouldn’t let you enjoy retirement in peace.) I’d rather see attention spent on the pure Barks we haven’t seen reprinted in recent years than this latter day stuff that no one can make sell.
I too would like to hear more about the "endless attempts". But of course I agree that everything Barks himself both wrote and drew should be prioritized over script-only stories. However, when all the earlier stuff by Barks IS reprinted, then I think collecting the Jippes redraws and other late projects would only be appropriate. (And they've been collected many times in Europe, so I'm not convinced "no one can make them sell".)
Even if they sell in Europe, Disney Comics are tougher to sell in the US. European publishers can print “Stuff We Found in Barks’ Wastebasket” because everyone there knows this stuff, but the same book wouldn’t sell in the US because when folks here think of Disney, they think of Frozen or some pre-teen Disney Channel sitcom.
Even if they sell in Europe, Disney Comics are tougher to sell in the US. European publishers can print “Stuff We Found in Barks’ Wastebasket” because everyone there knows this stuff, but the same book wouldn’t sell in the US because when folks here think of Disney, they think of Frozen or some pre-teen Disney Channel sitcom.
I know about that difference, of course. What I mean is, if sales are still decent after collecting all of Barks' earlier work, then I think his later Disney comics have a natural place in such a Library edition. And, after all, the sketch versions of these comics HAVE been collected in the U.S. as part of Another Rainbow's Carl Barks Library.
If Gemstone had done Egmont's Barks Library in English as they originally intended, I don't think it would have even been a question whether the script-only stories would be included. Of course they would. It's a question NOW because the signals Fantagraphics are sending with their Library edition have been so mixed (odd and inconsistent color choices, unclear when they intend to jump back to the earlier 40s work, uneven quality on the background texts, etc).