They 100% will continue the rest of the 1960s material.
Summer 2025: vol 1 Late 2025: vol 29
How many volumes are planned? Is the series going to end in 2026 with Vol 30?
Does anyone have the mapping for the remainder of this series? I thought they said due to paper costs we’d get more then the initial estimated 30 volumes.
How many volumes are planned? Is the series going to end in 2026 with Vol 30?
Does anyone have the mapping for the remainder of this series? I thought they said due to paper costs we’d get more then the initial estimated 30 volumes.
Compared to the Danish "Samlede Værker", we are about halfway through Volume 24. However, Fanta had some stories by Jippes earlier. Egmont published them in the final volumes.
Assuming we'll get everything from the Samlede Værker and nothing more (nor less), there should be more or less 35 volumes, I think.
Is "censorship" really the reason why I can't find a reasonably priced book of volume 18 "Lost Peg Leg Mine" and volume 8 "Trail of the Unicorn" ?
In the past year and half from July 2022 I've been buying one Fantagraphics volume every couple of weeks. Mostly on Amazon However now I'm not able to complete the Carl Barks series, as these two volume seem to go for crazy prices.
Anyone knows a place where they sell reasonably priced used copies ?
Being a publisher with a lot of titles, books probably go in and out of print at Fantagraphics all the time. That they reprint these volumes at all is a bit of a luxury, as many other books are printed just once and then go out of print.
True. But it seems strange that most of the volumes are always available for close to retail, while volume 8 and 18 are crazy expensive. There must be some reason why these volumes are not reprinted, while the others are.
Being a publisher with a lot of titles, books probably go in and out of print at Fantagraphics all the time. That they reprint these volumes at all is a bit of a luxury, as many other books are printed just once and then go out of print.
True. But it seems strange that most of the volumes are always available for close to retail, while volume 8 and 18 are crazy expensive. There must be some reason why these volumes are not reprinted, while the others are.
While I'd agree it's odd, there was a similar issue with the Floyd Gottfredson library, where volumes 9 and 10 were ridiculously difficult to find. As far as I'm aware, though, there was never any reason given - it does seem to be the case that some of them just go underprinted for innocuous reasons.
That's not to say there isn't a reason - it's entirely possible that the same applies to those two, which I eventually found through third-party sellers - but it may just be the case that the reasons are mundane, like lower demand or other publishing oddities.
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True. But it seems strange that most of the volumes are always available for close to retail, while volume 8 and 18 are crazy expensive. There must be some reason why these volumes are not reprinted, while the others are.
While I'd agree it's odd, there was a similar issue with the Floyd Gottfredson library, where volumes 9 and 10 were ridiculously difficult to find. As far as I'm aware, though, there was never any reason given - it does seem to be the case that some of them just go underprinted for innocuous reasons.
Reason, as far as I can gauge it: a vocal minority of American Mickey fans dislikes Eega Beeva, so orders were notably lower on the volumes he starred in.
On some level, it may be a function of boomers who didn't grow up with Eega in their Dell and Gold Key comics, so could view him as an interloper in otherwise "classic" nostalgia-flavored material.
On another level, it may be related to weaknesses of the original Walsh/Gottfredson stories: some of the time, Eega can come across as an overpowered creator's-pet character and Mickey like a buffaloed sidekick (compare to weaker Pluto animated shorts). Many of the stories incidentally found Walsh at his most random in terms of plotting and structure. Combine all of these points and you have books that I simply found harder to market and sell.
There are obviously exceptions to the rule ("Pflip's Strange Power" and "The Atombrella and the Rhyming Man" are, IMHO, magnificent stories), and I don't think the better modern Eega stories (e.g. Casty) have the problems of the old ones at all; indeed, they sell well as Mickey material goes.
Still... the two Eega Gottfredson books did markedly worse than those immediately before and after, to a point where far fewer were ordered and it impacts their availability today, and this is the only explanation I've been able to come up with.
Ramapith Very interesting. I'm one of those people who have always disliked Eega Beeva. Maybe we aren't the minority... Anyway, my issue with him isn't that he is an "interloper". Atomo Bleep-Bleep is also an interloper yet I love that character. It's just that Eega Beeva is annoying and his character design is a bit creepy. Atomo Bleep-Bleep on the other hand is super cute. Is there anyone on the planet who would rather have a beer with Eega Beeva than with Atomo Bleep-Bleep?
Ramapith Is there anyone on the planet who would rather have a beer with Eega Beeva than with Atomo Bleep-Bleep?
Atomo at least presents as too young to drink—and that's why I like Eega a slight bit more; I think on a very general level, as a basic rule, I slightly prefer the interactions of Mickey teamed with a peer to Mickey saddled with kids (or de facto kids), even if the latter can be good as well.
By the same token, I think I like Mickey with Goofy and/or Horace a little more than Mickey with Ellroy.
That said, I'm a huge Atomo and Ellroy fan, and worked for years to bring their stories to our market, so my fondness for them shouldn't be in doubt!
As for Eega's looks, he's a hard character to get just right, and startlingly ugly at the very beginning; but I think he's perfect in mid-1948, when his head has lost the point on top and isn't as wide as it later became. I tried to grab an Eega face from exactly my preferred period for the FGL Vol 10 cover (where the pose is an amalgam of several, but the head is all from one place).
I grew up reading Mickey's adventures with Eega Beeva. I like him MUCH more than Atomo. I really loved drawing him and Pflip. I don't think he is ugly, at all.
My first introduction to Eega Beeva was in "The World To Come" and I thought he was used effectively. He and Mickey meshed well and I'm generally suspicious of the Mouse's sidekicks since historically he has been overshadowed by zany pals.