The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
Cover to the first published volume, Lost in the Andes
Publication information
Publisher Fantagraphics Books
Schedule biannual
Format Hardcover
Genre Anthropomorphic animals
Adventure
Publication date December 2011
No. of issues about 30
Main character(s) Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey & Louie, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander
Creative team
Created by Carl Barks
Written by Carl Barks
Artist(s) Carl Barks
Colourist(s) Rich Tommaso, Tom Ziuko, Joseph Robert Cowles
Editor(s) Gary Groth

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is a series of books collecting all of the comic book Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories written and drawn by Carl Barks, originally published between late 1942 and Barks' retirement in June 1966.[1] The series was launched in late 2011, and will comprise 6000 pages over roughly 30[2][3] 240-page volumes when it is finished.

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library has been translated and published in Italy, Brazil and Russia.

Background

The rights to Barks' works were licensed from Disney by Gemstone Publishing from 2003 until the end of 2008, when they ceased publishing Disney titles. When he heard about it, Fantagraphics Books publisher Gary Groth got in contact with Disney, securing the rights to Floyd Gottfredson's work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, which resulted in the Floyd Gottfredson Library series that started publication in mid-2011. Groth also tried to get the rights to Barks' duck stories. Disney at first announced they would publish the stories themselves, but eventually changed their minds and passed the work on to Fantagraphics. In 2014, Fantagraphics also began publishing a companion series, The Don Rosa Library, collecting the Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck stories written and drawn by Don Rosa.

Format

Barks' duck stories have been reprinted extensively, especially in Europe. Before Fantagraphics there were two complete collections in English published by Another Rainbow. The first was the expensive, scholarly Carl Barks Library (1984–1990) in 30 hardcover volumes collected in ten slipcase volumes with three books in each, which was in black-and-white[4]. The second was Carl Barks Library in Color in softcover album format with modern colouring.

Fantagraphics' 7.5 inches × 10.25 inches (19 cm × 26 cm) hardcover volumes are published in full color, as the stories originally were. When the series is complete, it will represent a chronological collection of Barks' stories. However, the volumes of the stories are being published out of order, starting with the volumes that the publishers believe will attract the most attention, starting with Lost in the Andes!, a volume containing stories from what is considered to be Barks' "peak" period (the late 1940s to the mid-1950s), including the title story "Lost in the Andes", which many fans consider to be representative of Barks' best work, and was Barks' own favorite.[3]

The design work was done by Fantagraphics' lead designer, Jacob Covey. The pages are recolored by Rich Tommaso, using the original comics as a coloring guide, unlike some of Fantagraphics' more scholarly reprints, as the books are aimed at a more general audience than many of Fantagraphics' other offerings, which are often aimed at the comics cognoscenti.[3]

The books are about 240 pages each—about 200 pages of comics, with the remaining pages made up of supplementary material.[3]

Restoration

The books are completely uncensored, including the racial caricatures that appeared in the originals that had been retouched in later reprintings. Some stories were printed from recently rediscovered original artwork, for the first time since their original printings.[5]

Fantagraphics chose to have the artwork computer-recolored, using the original comics as color guides, rather than reprinting with the original off-register colors as they have in many of their other archival projects. Colorist Rich Tommaso has stuck closely to the original colors, although muting the originally garish ones somewhat in a concession to modern readers. Sometimes the colors were changed when it was known that Barks hadn't liked them, or when it was felt they could be corrected or improved.[5]

Volumes and boxed sets

Volumes
Vol. Release order & date Title figure Title Period Page count ISBN Inducks link
55: 2013-11-10Donald Duck“Christmas on Bear Mountain”1947210 978-1-60699-697-3CBDL 5
64: 2013-05-16Donald Duck“The Old Castle’s Secret”1948226 978-1-60699-653-9CBDL 6
71: 2011-12-05Donald Duck“Lost in the Andes”1948–1949250 978-1-60699-474-0CBDL 7
86: 2014-05-02Donald Duck“Trail of the Unicorn”1949–1950224 978-1-60699-741-3CBDL 8
98: 2015-05-15Donald Duck“The Pixilated Parrot”1950210 978-1-60699-834-2CBDL 9
1010: 2016-05-07Donald Duck“Terror of the Beagle Boys”1951225 978-1-60699-920-2CBDL 10
113: 2012-11-07Donald Duck“A Christmas For Shacktown”1951–1952234 978-1-60699-574-7CBDL 11
122: 2012-07-17Uncle Scrooge“Only a Poor Old Man”1952–1954240 978-1-60699-535-8CBDL 12
139: 2015-10-26Donald Duck“Trick or Treat”1952–1953236 978-1-60699-874-8CBDL 13
147: 2014-11-05Uncle Scrooge“The Seven Cities of Gold”1954–1955244 978-1-60699-795-6CBDL 14
1511: 2016-09-13Donald Duck“The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp”1953–1955242 978-1-60699-953-0CBDL 15
1612: 2017-08-15Uncle Scrooge“The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan”1956–1957232 978-1-68396-013-3CBDL 16
1713: 2017-09-19Donald Duck“The Secret of Hondorica”1955–1956200 978-1-68396-045-4CBDL 17
1814: 2018-03-27Donald Duck“The Lost Peg Leg Mine”1956–1958192 978-1-68396-093-5CBDL 18
1915: 2018-09-05Donald Duck“The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama”1957-1958200 978-1-68396-123-9CBDL 19
2016: 2019-04-16Uncle Scrooge“The Mines of King Solomon”1957-1958200 978-1-68396-187-1CBDL 20

Box sets

Boxed sets
Vol. Release order & date Title figure Title Volumes ISBN
N/A1:  2013-11-10Donald Duck"Christmas Treasury Gift Box Set"5 & 11 978-1-60699-714-7
N/A2:  2014-10-18Donald Duck"Lost In The Andes" & "Trail Of The Unicorn"7 & 8 978-1-60699-796-3
N/A3:  2015-11-23Uncle Scrooge"Only A Poor Old Man" & "The Seven Cities Of Gold"12 & 14 978-1-60699-875-5
N/A4:  2016-09-13Donald Duck"Christmas On Bear Mountain" & "The Old Castle's Secret"5 & 6 978-1-60699-979-0
N/A5:  2017-09-19Donald Duck"The Pixilated Parrot" & "Terror of The Beagle Boys"9 & 10 978-1-68396-046-1
N/A6:  2018-09-25Donald Duck"A Christmas for Shacktown" & "Trick or Treat"11 & 13 978-1-68396-124-6

Foreign versions

Italian version

The Italian version is titled Carl Barks Rizzoli Lizard and was published by Rizzoli Lizard in 2012-2013 before being canceled after the second volume.

Volumes
Vol. Release order & date Title figure Title Period Page count ISBN Inducks link
71: 2012-11Donald Duck“Il mistero degli Incas”1948–1949240CBRL 1
122: 2013-6Uncle Scrooge“La disfida dei dollari”1952–1954240CBRL 2

Brazilian version

The Brazilian version is titled Coleção Carl Barks Definitiva and is published by Editora Abril since 2016.

Volumes
Vol. Release order & date Title figure Title Period Page count ISBN Inducks link
52016-11Donald Duck“Natal nas Montanhas”1947220CCBD 5
62016-10Donald Duck“O Segredo do Castelo”1948244CCBD 6
72016-08Donald Duck“Perdidos Nos Andes!”1948–1949244CCBD 7
82016-12Donald Duck“Em Busca Do Unicórnio”1949–1950244CCBD 8
92017-04Donald Duck“O Papagaio Contador”1950220CCBD 9
102017-07Donald Duck“O Vil Metal e os Vilões”1951236CCBD 10
132017-09Donald Duck“A Noite Das Bruxas”1952–1953228CCBD 13
152017-02-24Donald Duck“A Cidade Fantasma”1953–1955252CCBD 15
17 2018-01 Donald Duck "O Segredo de Hondorica" 1955-1956 200 CCBD 17
18 2018-03 Donald Duck "A Mina Perdida do Perneta" 1956-1957 200 CCBD 18

Russian version

The Russian version is titled Библиотека Карла Баркса and is published since 2017.

Volumes
Vol. Release order & date Title figure Title Period Page count ISBN Inducks link
51: 2017Donald Duck“Рождество на Медвежьей горе”1947 978-5-17-102848-0CBDL 5
122: 2017Uncle Scrooge“Всего лишь бедный старичок”1952–1954 978-5-17-101749-1CBDL 12
143: 2017Uncle Scrooge“Семь золотых городов”1954–1955 978-5-17-102847-3CBDL 14
64: 2018Donald Duck“Тайна старого замка”1948 978-1-60699-653-9CBDL 6

See also

References

  1. ↑ De Haven, Tom (2011-11-09). "Donald Duck "Lost in the Andes"". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  2. ↑ Boucher, Geoff (2011-10-11). "Donald Duck and Carl Barks: Fantagraphics goes on classics quest". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Mautner, Chris (2011-01-02). "Exclusive: Fantagraphics to publish the complete Carl Barks". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
  4. ↑ Carl Barks Library at the INDUCKS
  5. 1 2 Wivel, Matthias (2012-01-24). "Donald Duck "Lost in the Andes"". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
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