Yes. I will be almost 80 years old when i get the last volume. I have a complete German set, but, not being a German, I'm not thrilled with how Erika Fuchs changed the dialogues and narratives.
Have you considered buying up Another Rainbow's black-and-white Carl Barks Library? I prefer Barks's comics in color, since he always drew them with color publication in mind, but what I've seen of those books looks very nice nonetheless. And the AR Library has more comprehensive and in-depth articles than Fantagraphics' edition -- in fact, it's more like the later Scandinavian Carl Barks Library in color, which I still wish Gemstone would have had time to publish in English before they went bankrupt.
(One slight drawback with the AR books is that, in a few stories, the art is not as uncensored as in Fantagraphics' later edition. Voodoo Hoodoo comes to mind as the most obvious example.)
I was a pre-subscriber to Another Rainbow's set. So, I got it all as early as possible, starting in the 1980s. The German set is Egmont's, so it differs from the Scandinavian sets only in some of its articles. I was a contributor to both The German and all The Scandinavian sets. But, I wish there had been a Dutch or English language set made on the quality level of the Egmont sets.
Have you considered buying up Another Rainbow's black-and-white Carl Barks Library? I prefer Barks's comics in color, since he always drew them with color publication in mind, but what I've seen of those books looks very nice nonetheless. And the AR Library has more comprehensive and in-depth articles than Fantagraphics' edition -- in fact, it's more like the later Scandinavian Carl Barks Library in color, which I still wish Gemstone would have had time to publish in English before they went bankrupt.
(One slight drawback with the AR books is that, in a few stories, the art is not as uncensored as in Fantagraphics' later edition. Voodoo Hoodoo comes to mind as the most obvious example.)
I was a pre-subscriber to Another Rainbow's set. So, I got it all as early as possible, starting in the 1980s. The German set is Egmont's, so it differs from the Scandinavian sets only in some of its articles. I was a contributor to both The German and all The Scandinavian sets. But, I wish there had been a Dutch or English language set made on the quality level of the Egmont sets.
Oh, that's awesome! So cool that you contributed to them. What did you do exactly?
I really wish so, too, regarding the Egmont sets. I don't own them, but I had the chance to check out one of the volumes once and it looked really nice. This kind of edition is how I want to own Barks in his original language. I can't understand people who prefer the coloring of the original Dell comic books (which Fantagraphics is painstakingly recreating these days) to Egmont's. The only thing I may prefer when it comes to the Fantagraphics books is the choice of matte paper instead of glossy, which the Egmont books use.
Also, while I don't own Egmont's Carl Barks sets, I do have four books from their six-volume sequel series Carl Barks Ekstra, aka Carl Barks Extra. So that has given me a taste of the quality as well. The volumes I have are "Calgary Eye-Opener", "Bruno Bjørn og venner" (Barney Bear and Friends), "Tegnefilmene" (The Animated Cartoons) and "Malerier og tegninger" (Paintings and Drawings). I especially like the Barney Bear book, which uses pristine printing proofs and includes nearly all of Barks's non-Disney Western work (only an Andy Panda story was left out for rights issues); and the Animated Cartoons book, which shows off just how good a storyboard artist Barks was several years before he drew Donald for comic books.
I was a pre-subscriber to Another Rainbow's set. So, I got it all as early as possible, starting in the 1980s. The German set is Egmont's, so it differs from the Scandinavian sets only in some of its articles. I was a contributor to both The German and all The Scandinavian sets. But, I wish there had been a Dutch or English language set made on the quality level of the Egmont sets.
Oh, that's awesome! So cool that you contributed to them. What did you do exactly?
I wrote an article "Mine Minder Om Carl Barks" ("My Memories of Carl Barks"), in which I described my childhood being infatuated with his work, his work's influence on my life (both careers), my three meetings with him and his wife Garé at their home during the late 1960s and early 1970s, my postal correspondence with him, as well as details on discussions we had about his work. It also featured a single storyboard page of my 1990 partial recreation (or attempt to re-create) his shelved 1952 story (which he told me would have been titled "Queen of The Apple Festival" - had it been printed during the time WDC&S had printed titles). It was based on everything Carl told me about that story, in our discussions about it. I had significantly more details to use in recreating the story than Michael Barrier's description of what Barks told him. So my 10-page story was more true to Barks' original story than Geoff Blum's 14-pager that added Uncle Scrooge and Magica DeSpell, and drastically changed the storyline.
In addition,it also included a photograph of my own, personally-created Carl Barks Library (which I titled: "The Works of Carl Barks"), and also included a professional level (I attended an urban planning school in university, and was a professional urban planner for some years) street map of Downtown Duckburg, I drew in 1968, based entirely on Barks' Duck stories.
"The Works of Carl Barks", which I completed in 1969, consisted of oversized black & white photocopies of all Barks' published stories and covers, as well as all of the pages of his unpublished inked stories, covers and gag pages that were known at the time (photographed from the original inked pages, all professionally bound together with some additions of my own): (1) a 10-Volume Table of Contents in Volume I, and a Table of Contents for each volume; (2) a Duck Family Tree I made (based on Carl's suggestions) using isolated Barks drawings taken from stories; (3) Professional-level maps of Calisota (The State of) and another of Duck County, as well as the above-mentioned map of Downtown Duckburg; and (4) detailed professional-level street maps of Duckburg, Goosetown, and other nearby suburban and semi-rural towns in the more urban third of Duck County (approximately 20 pages of connecting streetmaps). In addition, I hand-coloured the black and white photo-copied pages, of the first half of the 10 volume set. Unfortunately (or fortunately-depending upon how you look at it), I became an adult, with a life, and never was able to, nor inclined to finish that task. But, that was my ticket to having Malcolm Willits introduce me to Mr. Barks in the first place, back in 1966, so I am not sorry I started that.
Here's a link to the scan of the page from "Queen of The Apple Festival" (COA code CK1). Scroll down the Story information page to see the scan:
Oh, that's awesome! So cool that you contributed to them. What did you do exactly?
I wrote an article "Mine Minder Om Carl Barks" ("My Memories of Carl Barks"), in which I described my childhood being infatuated with his work, his work's influence on my life (both careers), my three meetings with him and his wife Garé at their home during the late 1960s and early 1970s, my postal correspondence with him, as well as details on discussions we had about his work. It also featured a single storyboard page of my 1990 partial recreation (or attempt to re-create) his shelved 1952 story (which he told me would have been titled "Queen of The Apple Festival" - had it been printed during the time WDC&S had printed titles). It was based on everything Carl told me about that story, in our discussions about it. I had significantly more details to use in recreating the story than Michael Barrier's description of what Barks told him. So my 10-page story was more true to Barks' original story than Geoff Blum's 14-pager that added Uncle Scrooge and Magica DeSpell, and drastically changed the storyline.
In addition,it also included a photograph of my own, personally-created Carl Barks Library (which I titled: "The Works of Carl Barks"), and also included a professional level (I attended an urban planning school in university, and was a professional urban planner for some years) street map of Downtown Duckburg, I drew in 1968, based entirely on Barks' Duck stories.
"The Works of Carl Barks", which I completed in 1969, consisted of oversized black & white photocopies of all Barks' published stories and covers, as well as all of the pages of his unpublished inked stories, covers and gag pages that were known at the time (photographed from the original inked pages, all professionally bound together with some additions of my own): (1) a 10-Volume Table of Contents in Volume I, and a Table of Contents for each volume; (2) a Duck Family Tree I made (based on Carl's suggestions) using isolated Barks drawings taken from stories; (3) Professional-level maps of Calisota (The State of) and another of Duck County, as well as the above-mentioned map of Downtown Duckburg; and (4) detailed professional-level street maps of Duckburg, Goosetown, and other nearby suburban and semi-rural towns in the more urban third of Duck County (approximately 20 pages of connecting streetmaps). In addition, I hand-coloured the black and white photo-copied pages, of the first half of the 10 volume set. Unfortunately (or fortunately-depending upon how you look at it), I became an adult, with a life, and never was able to, nor inclined to finish that task. But, that was my ticket to having Malcolm Willits introduce me to Mr. Barks in the first place, back in 1966, so I am not sorry I started that.
Here's a link to the scan of the page from "Queen of The Apple Festival" (COA code CK1). Scroll down the Story information page to see the scan:
Interesting. I've heard of that censored "Queen of the Apple Festival" story before (believe I read about it in Barrier's "Funnybooks"), but not about the attempts to recreate it. Is Blum's 14-page version connected to why your 10-page version was only partially done? Or was his done years later, maybe for the Scandinavian Library?
I'm noticing it says on Inducks that the only publication of that storyboard page was in a French Carl Barks Library edition in 2011. Does that mean it wasn't included with the article in the Scandinavian edition, or is some info missing from Inducks?
RE: the "Works of Carl Barks" project... man, that is dedication! Especially that you even went in and hand-colored pages for your custom-made Library. I can relate to an extent, since I've had/have fan projects of my own where I can really get involved. But, damn... I don't think I would even have attempted to hand-color all those comics pages. (Even though Barks was my favorite Donald Duck artist from an early age).
I wrote an article "Mine Minder Om Carl Barks" ("My Memories of Carl Barks"), in which I described my childhood being infatuated with his work, his work's influence on my life (both careers), my three meetings with him and his wife Garé at their home during the late 1960s and early 1970s, my postal correspondence with him, as well as details on discussions we had about his work. It also featured a single storyboard page of my 1990 partial recreation (or attempt to re-create) his shelved 1952 story (which he told me would have been titled "Queen of The Apple Festival" - had it been printed during the time WDC&S had printed titles). It was based on everything Carl told me about that story, in our discussions about it. I had significantly more details to use in recreating the story than Michael Barrier's description of what Barks told him. So my 10-page story was more true to Barks' original story than Geoff Blum's 14-pager that added Uncle Scrooge and Magica DeSpell, and drastically changed the storyline.
In addition,it also included a photograph of my own, personally-created Carl Barks Library (which I titled: "The Works of Carl Barks"), and also included a professional level (I attended an urban planning school in university, and was a professional urban planner for some years) street map of Downtown Duckburg, I drew in 1968, based entirely on Barks' Duck stories.
"The Works of Carl Barks", which I completed in 1969, consisted of oversized black & white photocopies of all Barks' published stories and covers, as well as all of the pages of his unpublished inked stories, covers and gag pages that were known at the time (photographed from the original inked pages, all professionally bound together with some additions of my own): (1) a 10-Volume Table of Contents in Volume I, and a Table of Contents for each volume; (2) a Duck Family Tree I made (based on Carl's suggestions) using isolated Barks drawings taken from stories; (3) Professional-level maps of Calisota (The State of) and another of Duck County, as well as the above-mentioned map of Downtown Duckburg; and (4) detailed professional-level street maps of Duckburg, Goosetown, and other nearby suburban and semi-rural towns in the more urban third of Duck County (approximately 20 pages of connecting streetmaps). In addition, I hand-coloured the black and white photo-copied pages, of the first half of the 10 volume set. Unfortunately (or fortunately-depending upon how you look at it), I became an adult, with a life, and never was able to, nor inclined to finish that task. But, that was my ticket to having Malcolm Willits introduce me to Mr. Barks in the first place, back in 1966, so I am not sorry I started that.
Here's a link to the scan of the page from "Queen of The Apple Festival" (COA code CK1). Scroll down the Story information page to see the scan:
I'm noticing it says on Inducks that the only publication of that storyboard page was in a French Carl Barks Library edition in 2011. Does that mean it wasn't included with the article in the Scandinavian edition, or is some info missing from Inducks?
No. The scan of that story page WAS included in all Scandinavian editions, as well as the German edition, and was printed also in Italy, and in some Finnish publication. I think the French publication given the CK1 code refers to my original 10-page story, whilst the single story page in the Scandinavian and German "Carl Barks Collection" Robert Klein Carl Barks article falls under the COA code for the entire article, written by me.
Despite the French book having only 1 page of my version printed, the COA code for my story refers to a complete, 10-page story, all pages of which still exist in my usual highly-detailed storyboard form.
I'm noticing it says on Inducks that the only publication of that storyboard page was in a French Carl Barks Library edition in 2011. Does that mean it wasn't included with the article in the Scandinavian edition, or is some info missing from Inducks?
It could be missing info. Sometimes people working on the inducks do not index all the images appearing in books and magazine issues. For instance, the French Barks library is a translation - with no graphical modifications - of the Italian one, which is now being reprint by the way. So Robb's storyboard page also appeared in there, but the indexer of the Italian volume has probably not included the reference in the database.
I like the Fantagraphics Carl Barks library a lot. I like the size, paper and coloring. I like the small essay to each story and the re-prints of old covers. What I do not like is the long waiting time until I have the complete set at home (15 years!!). Ever worse is the release of box sets. It should have been like the Peanuts and Don Rosa books since book 1: one box set each year collecting both books published in that year.
I like the Fantagraphics Carl Barks library a lot. I like the size, paper and coloring. I like the small essay to each story and the re-prints of old covers. What I do not like is the long waiting time until I have the complete set at home (15 years!!). Ever worse is the release of box sets. It should have been like the Peanuts and Don Rosa books since book 1: one box set each year collecting both books published in that year.
Yes. Now I have 2 box sets that have Christmas for Shacktown, and will need to also buy another that has Christmas on Bear Mountain. The boxed sets should have come out consecutive, from the start, in chronological order, together with the volumes, or else also be sold separately.
I got all the box sets and sold all the single books and christmas box set, havent bought single book since 2016, I dont care for the boxes I buy them because books inside are mint, thats all
I prefer box sets for three reasons: 1. books are in mint condition (no damage in store or during shipping) 2. books are protected for dust on shelf 3. they look pretty good :-)
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jan 21, 2019 13:37:16 GMT
I agree with the general appreciation of the Fantagraphics library.
It looks beautiful and dignified without being uselessly fancy. The original coloring restoration is one of my favourite aspect of the whole thing. I generally prefer modern colouring, but in this case it is an interesting experience to see a vintage colouring in such an high definition.
The essays for each story are well written, and almost always add something to the reading.
Is IDW the main current publisher of Disney comics? Also, if I were to start reading the Scrooge comics, where's a good place to start? It's been around so long it's a little overwhelming. Thanks!
Is IDW the main current publisher of Disney comics? Also, if I were to start reading the Scrooge comics, where's a good place to start? It's been around so long it's a little overwhelming. Thanks!
I'm not sure how familiar you are with the comics and what you have and haven't read. If you've read little to no comics so far, I'd recommend starting with something along the lines of the Fantagraphics Carl Barks Library. Barks was the creator of Scrooge McDuck, Gladstone Gander, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica de Spell, the Beagle Boys, Gyro Gearloose, and so many other beloved characters. Reading his stories is a great way to get a feel for the Duck Universe. The Fantagraphics library is a great way to read them and it is filled with informative articles that really embellish the experience. That's just my personal opinion.
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Thank you! I'm not that familiar with comics at all except Calvin and Hobbes, but I know those Disney comics characters from Duck Tales and thought I'd check them out. I also recently ordered some Pogo collections from the library I work at which seem very good and got me interested in more.
Also, is IDW the main publisher of current Disney comics? Thanks!
Thank you! I'm not that familiar with comics at all except Calvin and Hobbes, but I know those Disney comics characters from Duck Tales and thought I'd check them out. I also recently ordered some Pogo collections from the library I work at which seem very good and got me interested in more.
Also, is IDW the main publisher of current Disney comics? Thanks!
I believe IDW is the only publisher of Disney comics in the United States. Fantagraphics takes old comics and puts them into hardcover backs that include articles and neat information. IDW translates Disney comics from other languages, and I believe they also publish some other material originally written in English, such as things by William Van Horn. IDW does not, as far as I'm aware, make new, original Disney comics, or, at least, they don't make new Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and Mickey Mouse comics. I myself am somewhat new at knowing what's what in the Disney comics industry. Currently, I read most of my comics from hardcover books published by Fantagraphics, and I'm not too familiar with what IDW does, though I am to an extent . Someone more knowledgeable could probably answer your questions better.
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