Carl Barks Ducktales tpbs

[shaxper]

Just bought the first one today and am loving it. Has Gemstone announced any plans to release a second volume?

[Andy S.]

According to an ad I saw in one of the Gemstone books, there will be a vol. 2 out later this summer. I want to say July, but not sure.

Man, that is awesome! I can't wait to get my hands on that book. I've been hoping they would do something like this -releasing the Barks stories as a collected work.

How much did it cost?

[Agentum]

It's funny that the place the big collection of Barks work is not published is in the US:)

Personally i think Bark was good but i can't stand those ducks anymore.

[shaxper]

How much did it cost?


$10.95. About right for a softcover trade.

Nice quality reprints.

I was amazed by the amount of grammatical mistakes in the forward, for what it's worth.

[Jesse Hamm]

"foreword"

[Tancread]

I missed this one at the store today, I will have to double back by there and pick it up. I love this books as does my son.

[Captain Jim]

Just bought the first one today and am loving it. Has Gemstone announced any plans to release a second volume?

Volume 2 has been solicited, I *think* in the August solicitations.

[Hintermann]

It's funny that the place the big collection of Barks work is not published is in the US:)

Gemstone's predecessor Gladstone published Carl Bark's complete works in very good comic album format in the late 80s & early 90s. They were under the title "Carl Barks' Library" with complete & separate collections of Donald Duck, Uncle $crooge & WDC&S stories.

[shaxper]

Gemstone's predecessor Gladstone published Carl Bark's complete works in very good comic album format in the late 80s & early 90s. They were under the title "Carl Barks' Library" with complete & separate collections of Donald Duck, Uncle $crooge & WDC&S stories.

REALLY?


I must go looking for this...

[Andy S.]

$10.95. About right for a softcover trade.

Nice quality reprints.


Sweet! I was thinking that they were going to charge about 20-30 dollars for it. My only complaint about the last trade i picked up from them (life & times of Uncle Scrooge) was that the book didn't seem that durable. The cover would tear very easily.

[Aaron King]

I picked up the DuckTales book yesterday, but I've been too busy with the new Comic Journal to give it a decent look. Regarding the Uncle Scrooge trade, I had to tape my cover back on because it fell off almost entirely after my first readthrough.

[Hintermann]

REALLY?


I must go looking for this...

Yes, really. Check with Gemstone for back issues first. If they cannot help, the old Gladstone office might still have stock - they certainly did last year. If even that avenue fails, E-bay is still an option. Always go for the keyword "Carl Barks Library". These are superb, oversozed, high quality comic books meant for collectors.

[Cherokee Jack]

REALLY?


I must go looking for this...

These are EXCELLENT reprints. I highly recommend them. Don Rosa's LIFE AND TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDUCK was also reprinted in this format, under the title UNCLE SCROOGE ADVENTURES.

Try this link:


http://moneybin.at.infoseek.co.jp/barks_library.html

This one has not been updated in sometime, but may be worth contacting:





http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticcomicsco/GladstoneBarks.html

[Agentum]

Gemstone's predecessor Gladstone published Carl Bark's complete works in very good comic album format in the late 80s & early 90s. They were under the title "Carl Barks' Library" with complete & separate collections of Donald Duck, Uncle $crooge & WDC&S stories.

Ok, they have done that here to a couple of times, and a recent hardcover slipcased versions of all his work ever done but thats expensive books for somebody not that intrested.

[Hintermann]

Don Rosa's LIFE AND TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDUCK was also reprinted in this format, under the title UNCLE SCROOGE ADVENTURES.

That is also available as a large format sofcover graphic novel with all 12 adventures in one book. Later this year, the hardcover edition is due and that's supposed to contain the "in-between" stories (only Rosa fans will know what that means....hard to explain) as well. A comic book masterpiece if ever there was one.

[Reptisaurus!]

I was amazed by the amount of grammatical mistakes in the forward, for what it's worth.

I kinda got the feeling that English wasn't the writer's first language.

(Should there be an apostrophe after writer? Now I'm all self-conscious.)

I thought the forward was fairly pointless, myself. Would've been a more effective use of space to give some background on both Carl Barks and the show instead of bitching about how Ducktales wasn't true to Bark's vision for eight hundred words.

Edit: Good collection though. :) And cheap!

[Hintermann]

I was amazed by the amount of grammatical mistakes in the forward, for what it's worth.

There is a lot of Euro input (particularly Scandinavian) into the Ducktales stories. They are often published in Swedish, Norwegian, French, German or Italian first and then translated into English. The grammar is usually OK if a British or American translator does the job, but the same cannot always be said of Euro staff. It is not just the grammatical errors, they often get the nuances all wrong.

[Ultraman Max]

This is actually the first collection of Carl Barks stories I've ever read and I really rather liked them. I didn't care much for Disney growing up but always loved the Ducktales and Darkwing Duck cartoons, saw this at the shop and bought it as a sort of compare and contrast thing. The forwards were .... interesting, in that it's kinda odd to experience the whole "they didn't follow the comic!" argument from the other side. These stories are just as good (and in some cases actually a little better) as I recall the cartoon being, though I've not seen it in a while. Looking forward to a 2nd volume!

[dougiemccoy]

is this out at B&N bookstore???

[Hintermann]

When Gladstone started publishing them in the late 1980s - with the TV linkup - Disney's "Ducktales" were originally meant for input by European and other non-American artists. However, Gladstone introduced some Carl Barks stories in later issues to boost sales which had been not very encouraging up to that point. That worked and since then Barks has played a "Guest Star" role with Ducktales.