"Disney Masters" from Fantagraphics

[hex]

Looks like the new project from Fantagraphics is going to be a series of books called "Disney Masters". I didn't find any information on Fantagraphics' own website yet, but three books are listed on Amazon:

Disney Masters Vol. 1: Romano Scarpa: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Delta Dimension
May 8, 2018
ISBN 978-1683960966

Disney Masters Vol. 2: Luciano Bottaro: Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket
Jun 12, 2018
ISBN 978-1683961093

Disney Masters Vol. 3: Paul Murry: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Case Of The Vanishing Bandit
Jul 17, 2018
ISBN 978-1683961130

From the titles and descriptions it looks like this will be a series of books each dedicated to one creator. And the description say they will include newly translated stories too, and hopefully with some editorial text and bacground information about the creators.

Looking forward to this series!

[phalanx091]

Vol 1 - Scarpa:
inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL++206-AP
inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL++257-AP
inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL++288-AP

Vol 2 - Bottaro:
inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL++230-BP
inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL+2049-1 (probably)
inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL++397-A (99%)

Vol 3 - Murry:
inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+152-15P
inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+158-15P
inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+161-12P
inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+164-15P
inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+167-17P
inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+170-11P
inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+173-10P

[thadwell]

There's also "The Return of Snow White", which features Scarpa's sequels with the movie's characters, coming out this fall...

www.amazon.com/Return-Snow-White-Seven-Dwarfs/dp/1683960750

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Yes! Cool!

[deb]

Two of the three are Mickey Mouse volumes by Romano Scarpa and Paul Murry which makes me happy. I don't recall if I've seen anything by Luciano Bottaro before, though.

[iggy]

I was sure they are gonna do another collected works like Van Horn or someone, maybe they arent popular enough for complete libraries. I also like that there will be new mouse stuff

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Oct 1, 2017 20:31:35 GMT deb said:

Two of the three are Mickey Mouse volumes by Romano Scarpa and Paul Murry which makes me happy. I don't recall if I've seen anything by Luciano Bottaro before, though.

And the one by Scarpa contains two of his best Mickey stories unseen in the US! I suppose that Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan-Grillà was so far unpublished because of the not very bright way the inhabitants of Shan-Grillà are portrayed to behave (even if they are a fictive people). A Fantagraphic book is the perfect place to avoid this kind of issue.

Luciano Bottaro is hard to forget, if you have seen any of his stuff. 

[deb]

Maybe it's a way of testing the waters, to see which books will sell the most copies. Of the three initial volumes, Paul Murry has the advantage of being well-known in US fandom.

[Matilda]

Me for the Bottaro volume, coz I'm a Duckfan. The Bottaro stories that have particularly struck my fancy are "la nipote del Cosaro Nero" (pirate Daisy!) and "The Lake Mess Monster" (written by Chendi)...both read in French comics. I just did an Inducks search, and if I did it right, it looks like "Tycoonraker!" (the first Zantaf story) is the only Bottaro story published in the USA so far.

[deb]

Oct 1, 2017 17:13:50 GMT thadwell said:

There's also "The Return of Snow White", which features Scarpa's sequels with the movie's characters, coming out this fall...

www.amazon.com/Return-Snow-White-Seven-Dwarfs/dp/1683960750

I have to admit that the interest in this one for me is to see more of Scarpa's work than any need to see more stories about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

[squeakyboots]

Wow.

Between these, the rest of the hardcovers from Fantagraphics and IDW's hardcovers, we're all going to have insanely large collections of Disney comics in hardcover when all is said and done.

[deb]

Oct 2, 2017 18:54:10 GMT squeakyboots said:

Wow.

Between these, the rest of the hardcovers from Fantagraphics and IDW's hardcovers, we're all going to have insanely large collections of Disney comics in hardcover when all is said and done.

And we can dive into them like a porpoise, burrow through them like a gopher, and toss them up and let them hit us on the head!  

Or just read them. 

[caballero]

Great news, although I won't be buying any of the first 3 volumes, as Murry's work never interested me, and the same goes for Disney comics produced in Italy. Volumes I would definitely buy: Van Horn (a complete Van Horn Library would be even better, but it seems unlikely that such a series will ever get published), Rota, Branca. A volume featuring the few Disney comics of Pat Block would also be very welcome. I wonder how many volumes Fantagraphics is planning to release per year. Also, I'm hoping that the future of the series will be less focused on Disney comics produced in Italy.

[iggy]

Yeah , I also hoped for Van Horn library, actually from some other forums I have been checking out, regarding this topic Van Horn is the first name that comes up, I think he is the most popular out of the egmont guys and the whole gemstone/gladstone era.

[thadwell]

As I understand it, the series' intention is to encompass talent worldwide and may very well highlight the very creators requested here in later volumes.