The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

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 1942 and Barks' retirement in June 1966.[1] The series was launched in late 2011, and will comprise 6,000 pages over roughly 30[2][3] 200- to 240-page volumes when it is finished.

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
Cover to the first published volume, Lost in the Andes
Publication information
PublisherFantagraphics Books
Schedulebiannual
FormatHardcover
GenreAnthropomorphic animals
Adventure
Publication dateDecember 2011
No. of issuesabout 30
Main character(s)Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey & Louie, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander
Creative team
Created byCarl Barks
Written byCarl Barks
Artist(s)Carl Barks
Colourist(s)Rich Tommaso, Tom Ziuko, Joseph Robert Cowles
Editor(s)Gary Groth

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 Fantagraphics Books publisher Gary Groth heard this, he contacted Disney and secured the publishing rights to Floyd Gottfredson's work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, resulting in the Floyd Gottfredson Library series that began publication in mid-2011.[4] Groth also tried to obtain the publishing 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.[5] 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,[6] 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, such as cover reprints and essays.[3][7]

Restoration

Some stories were printed from recently rediscovered original artwork, for the first time since their original printings.[8] Volumes 5-22 were completely uncensored, including the racial caricatures that appeared in the originals that had been retouched in later reprintings. The table of contents in volume 23 includes the statement "The artwork in these comics stories is reproduced here in its entirety as first created in 1959-1960. Some dialog has been modified." Specifically, some dialog concerning Native Americans has been rewritten in the stories "Trail Tycoon" and "The Wax Museum".

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.[9] 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.[8]

Recognition

  • 2013 - The volume Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man was nominated for the Eisner Award in the category, "Best Archival Collection/Project - Comic Books".[10]
  • 2015 - The volume Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn was nominated for the Eisner Award in the category, "Best Archival Collection/Project - Comic Books (at least 20 years old)".[11]

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”1947210978-1-60699-697-3CBDL 5
64: 2013-05-16Donald Duck“The Old Castle’s Secret”1948226978-1-60699-653-9CBDL 6
71: 2011-12-05Donald Duck“Lost in the Andes”1948–1949250978-1-60699-474-0CBDL 7
86: 2014-05-02Donald Duck“Trail of the Unicorn”1949–1950224978-1-60699-741-3CBDL 8
98: 2015-05-15Donald Duck“The Pixilated Parrot”1950210978-1-60699-834-2CBDL 9
1010: 2016-05-07Donald Duck“Terror of the Beagle Boys”1951225978-1-60699-920-2CBDL 10
113: 2012-11-07Donald Duck“A Christmas For Shacktown”1951–1952234978-1-60699-574-7CBDL 11
122: 2012-07-17Uncle Scrooge“Only a Poor Old Man”1952–1954240978-1-60699-535-8CBDL 12
139: 2015-10-26Donald Duck“Trick or Treat”1952–1953236978-1-60699-874-8CBDL 13
147: 2014-11-05Uncle Scrooge“The Seven Cities of Gold”1954–1955244978-1-60699-795-6CBDL 14
1511: 2016-09-13Donald Duck“The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp”1953–1955242978-1-60699-953-0CBDL 15
1612: 2017-08-15Uncle Scrooge“The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan”1956–1957232978-1-68396-013-3CBDL 16
1713: 2017-09-19Donald Duck“Secret of Hondorica”1955–1956200978-1-68396-045-4CBDL 17
1814: 2018-03-27Donald Duck“The Lost Peg Leg Mine”1956–1958192978-1-68396-093-5CBDL 18
1915: 2018-09-05Donald Duck“The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama”1957–1958200978-1-68396-123-9CBDL 19
2016: 2019-05-21Uncle Scrooge“The Mines of King Solomon”1957–1958200978-1-68396-187-1CBDL 20
2117: 2019-10-08Donald Duck“Christmas in Duckburg”1958–1959200978-1-68396-239-7CBDL 21
2218: 2020-06-09Uncle Scrooge“The Twenty-Four Carat Moon”1958–1962200978-1-68396-291-5CBDL 22
2319: 2020-11-10[12]Donald Duck“Under the Polar Ice”1959-1960200978-1-68396-383-7CBDL 23
2420: 2021-02-23Uncle Scrooge"Island in the Sky"TBA200978-1-68396-401-8CBDL 24

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 & 11978-1-60699-714-7
N/A2:  2014-10-18Donald Duck"Lost In The Andes" & "Trail Of The Unicorn"7 & 8978-1-60699-796-3
N/A3:  2015-11-23Uncle Scrooge"Only A Poor Old Man" & "The Seven Cities Of Gold"12 & 14978-1-60699-875-5
N/A4:  2016-09-13Donald Duck"Christmas On Bear Mountain" & "The Old Castle's Secret"5 & 6978-1-60699-979-0
N/A5:  2017-09-19Donald Duck"The Pixilated Parrot" & "Terror of The Beagle Boys"9 & 10978-1-68396-046-1
N/A6:  2018-09-25Donald Duck"A Christmas for Shacktown" & "Trick or Treat"11 & 13978-1-68396-124-6
N/A7:  2019-10-15Donald Duck"The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" & "Secret of Hondorica"15 & 17978-1-68396-240-3
N/A8:  2020-10-20Donald Duck"The Lost Peg Leg Mine" & "The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama"18 & 19978-1-68396-384-4

Free Comic Book Day 2012

In 2011 it was announced that Fantagrapics would participate in the Free Comic Book Day promotion campaign in May, 2012. For this occasion they would release a comic book titled, Walt Disney's Donald Duck Family Comics, an issue featuring reprinted duck stories by Carl Barks.[13][14] The issue contained the three stories: The Round Money Bin, Donald Duck's Worst Nightmare and Somethin' Fishy Here, as well as eight one-page gag comics.

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”1948–1949240978-88-17-06065-3CBRL 1
122: 2013-6Uncle Scrooge“La disfida dei dollari”1952–1954240978-88-17-06684-6CBRL 2

Brazilian version

The Brazilian version is titled Coleção Carl Barks Definitiva and was initially published by Editora Abril in 2016–2018, when the publication was canceled. In November 2019, Panini Brasil Ltda resumed the collection.[15]

Volumes
Vol. Released Title figure Title Period Page count Published ISBN Inducks link
52016-11Donald Duck“Natal nas Montanhas”1947220 Editora Abril978 85 5579 243 4CCBD 5
62016-10Donald Duck“O Segredo do Castelo”1948244 Editora Abril978 85 5579 098 0CCBD 6
72016-08Donald Duck“Perdidos Nos Andes!”1948–1949244 Editora Abril978 85 5579 065 2CCBD 7
82016-12Donald Duck“Em Busca Do Unicórnio”1949–1950244 Editora Abril978 85 5579 111 6CCBD 8
92017-04Donald Duck“O Papagaio Contador”1950220 Editora Abril978 85 5579 172 7CCBD 9
102017-07Donald Duck“O Vil Metal e os Vilões”1951236 Editora Abril978 85 5579 203 8CCBD 10
112020-01Donald Duck"O Trenzinho da Alegria"1951-1952200 Panini978 85 426 2394 9CCBD 11
122020-02Uncle Scrooge"Nadando em Dinheiro"1952-1954200 Panini978 85 426 2698 8CCBD 12
132017-09Donald Duck“A Noite Das Bruxas”1952–1953228 Editora Abril978 85 5579 225 0CCBD 13
142020-06Uncle Scrooge"As Cidades do Ouro"1954-1955200 Panini978 65 5512 083 7 CCBD 14
152017-02-24Donald Duck“A Cidade Fantasma”1953–1955252 Editora Abril978 85 5579 139 0CCBD 15
162019-11Uncle Scrooge"A Coroa Perdida de Gengis Khan"1956-1957200 Panini978 85 426 1711 5CCBD 16
172018-01Donald Duck"O Segredo de Hondorica"1955-1956200 Editora Abril978 85 5579 258 8CCBD 17
182018-03Donald Duck"A Mina Perdida do Perneta"1956-1957200 Editora Abril978 85 69522 53 9CCBD 18
19 2020-10 Donald Duck "O Tabu das Pérolas Negras" 1957–1958 200 Panini 978 65 55123 15 9 CCBD 19
20 2020-09 Uncle Scrooge "As Minas do Rei Salomão" 1957–1958 200 Panini 978 65 55124 42 2 CCBD 20
21 2020-12 Donald Duck "Natal em Patópolis" 1958–1959 200 Panini 978 65 55125 52 8 CCBD 21
22 2021-03 Uncle Scrooge "A Lua de Vinte e Quatro Quilates" 1958-1962 200 Panini 978 65 55126 99 0 CCBD 22

Russian version

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

Volumes
Vol. Release order & date Title figure Title Period Page count ISBN Inducks link
121: 2017-04-03Uncle Scrooge“Всего лишь бедный старичок”1952–1954248 978-5-17-101749-1CBDL 12
52: 2017-11-01Donald Duck“Рождество на Медвежьей горе”1947216 978-5-17-102848-0CBDL 5
143: 2017-12-07Uncle Scrooge“Семь золотых городов”1954–1955240 978-5-17-102847-3CBDL 14
64: 2018-03-26Donald Duck“Тайна старого замка”1948232 978-5-17-106038-1CBDL 6
75: 2018-08-15Donald Duck"Затерянные в Андах"1948-1949240978-5-17-107862-1
86: 2018-12-04Donald Duck"След единорога"1949-1950224978-5-17-107861-4

See also

References

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  2. Boucher, Geoff (2011-10-11). "Donald Duck and Carl Barks: Fantagraphics goes on classics quest". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  3. Mautner, Chris (2011-01-02). "Exclusive: Fantagraphics to publish the complete Carl Barks". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
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  5. Carl Barks Library at Inducks
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  7. Hoffman, Eric (March 6, 2015). "Classic Comics Cavalcade: Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn (The Carl Barks Library Volume Eight)". Comics Bulletin. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  8. Wivel, Matthias (2012-01-24). "Donald Duck "Lost in the Andes"". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
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  10. CBR Staff. "2013 Eisner Award Nominees Announced". CBR. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  11. Asselin, Janelle. "2015 Eisner Award Nominations Announced". Comics Alliance. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  12. https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/walt-disneys-donald-duck-vol-23-under-the-polar-ice
  13. https://www.cbr.com/full-free-comic-book-day-2012-comic-list-released/ Retrieved 2020-03-07
  14. http://fantagraphics.com/flog/weve-got-donald-duck-and-barnaby-for-free-comic-book-day-2012/ Retrieved 2020-03-07
  15. http://www.universohq.com/noticias/panini-retoma-colecoes-da-disney-canceladas-pela-editora-abril/
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