According to the Fantagraphics website's specs, the Disney Masters are slightly smaller (8x10.5" as opposed to 8x11"). I'm looking forward to getting my copy of "Delta Dimension" in the mail. I worked on the Bottaro book so I've read its contents already, and MAN, you have never seen a Disney compilation like this. I'd take four more volumes of this insanity before anything by a dullard like Murry or Strobl.
Has any of Bottaro's work appeared in English before? His name doesn't strike me as familiar, and I don't have any of my books handy to check them.
Tycoonraker was him. I don't recall whether there's been anything else (aside from the unofficial translation of Dr Donaldus Faustus).
According to the Fantagraphics website's specs, the Disney Masters are slightly smaller (8x10.5" as opposed to 8x11"). I'm looking forward to getting my copy of "Delta Dimension" in the mail. I worked on the Bottaro book so I've read its contents already, and MAN, you have never seen a Disney compilation like this. I'd take four more volumes of this insanity before anything by a dullard like Murry or Strobl.
Has any of Bottaro's work appeared in English before? His name doesn't strike me as familiar, and I don't have any of my books handy to check them.
To add some comments on Bottaro: Art-wise he belongs to the concurrent "school" of Italian artists (as opposed to the Scarpa/Cavazzano "strain") that also includes people like Carpi, Scala and Chierchini. I remember he could have some pretty dark humour in the stories that he wrote himself.
I'm low-key expecting a Midthun volume. It may depend on how many volumes can be released, considering the shrinking market.
I would assume that these books must be doing well for Fantagraphics, else they wouldn't have started another series of Disney books after the Gottfredson Library ended. Making assumptions about the books not doing well really won't help us get more of them.
I'm low-key expecting a Midthun volume. It may depend on how many volumes can be released, considering the shrinking market.
I would assume that these books must be doing well for Fantagraphics, else they wouldn't have started another series of Disney books after the Gottfredson Library ended. Making assumptions about the books not doing well really won't help us get more of them.
Thadwell previously said :"Honestly, with any other U.S. publisher (including Disney itself), the sales would've shut the series down around Vol. 7. " which was the reason why I made this assumption.
Apparently the Bottaro book and the 2nd one in the series got on sale in comic shops today, and got on sale on Amazon etc. yesterday (it's still listed for June 27 on PreviewsWorld)
I haven't ordered any of the two first books yet as I wanted to wait for the box sets. But now the box sets are removed from Fantagraphics own webpage (!), and the cover images are removed from Amazon. So I wonder if they actually are going to be released or not...
I have no idea about the boxed sets, but I have the first two volumes (purchased from Amazon) and they are just fantastic! I can see some of the cut corners ("The Bleep-Bleep 15" with the original coloring from the first Italian publication), but really, I'm just fine with regular hardbacks of never-before/never-again-printed long stories uncensored. And "Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket" has to be seen to be believed!
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jun 8, 2018 9:04:04 GMT
When The Bleep-Bleep 15 was published in 1960 Topolino was mostly in b/w, with only a few pages colored. So, the one you see must be the first colored version from the 90's. (Now that I see it on inducks, it is very weird that this story was never republished in Italy from 64 to 94...I mean, for being a story by Scarpa!)
Topolino became full color only one year later, in 1961, starting with the issue containing the other story in this Fantagraphics book, Shan-Grillà.
When The Bleep-Bleep 15 was published in 1960 Topolino was mostly in b/w, with only a few pages colored. So, the one you see must be the first colored version from the 90's. (Now that I see it on inducks, it is very weird that this story was never republished in Italy from 64 to 94...I mean, for being a story by Scarpa!)
When GeoX reviewed The Bleep-Bleep 15 on Duck Comics Revue, he presumed that it had to do with the rather unfortunate design of the henchman…
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jun 8, 2018 11:20:11 GMT
Naaaaahhh, just impossible. GeoX should not make assumptions on the Italian society based on US parameters. That stereotyped Chinese dude would not raise much of an eyebrow now in modern Italy, not to mention from '64 to '94.
(Not that Italians, and Europeans in general, are insensitive. It's just that we tend to relativize the impact of such things more than people in the US.)
americans are hyper sensitive last few decades, its a fact, people in europe dont get offended by such things, at least not on such a level, the whole protest about every banal thing came from usa. caricatures are often funny which does not mean I hate the race being caricaturised, its just plain funny, like barks said in an interview; how arab was called arab back in the day, nobody made a fuss about it, now you have to call black people african american but white people are just american, nobody calls them european american, does that mean they are more american than the others?
thats sensitivity going the wrong way and being offensive in my view
Oops! Yes, I did mean that later one, the first color printing, not the first printing ever. And "The Return of Rebo" in the Bottaro book retains that bland 90s Italian color. Not ideal, but the original Rebo story looks absolutely beautiful (as does the insane Witch Hazel story I localized). Seriously, cannot get over how long it took this to reach our shores, but boy did it arrive in style!
And "The Return of Rebo" in the Bottaro book retains that bland 90s Italian color.
What do you mean, “bland”? Off the (limited) view I can get of it on I.N.D.U.C.K.S., it looks pretty good to me, and even sort of original (though not necessarily in a good way) in giving Scrooge mauve spats for whatever reason.