The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

This article is about the color Fantagraphics collection series. For the black-and-white Another Rainbow collection series, see Carl Barks Library.

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
Cover to the first published volume, Lost in the Andes
Publication information
Publisher	Fantagraphics Books
Schedule	biannual
Publication date	December 2011
Number of issues	about 30
Creative team
Creator(s)	Carl Barks
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.

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

Format

Barks' duck stories have been reprinted extensively, especially in Europe, but the only complete collection in English before Fantagraphics' was the expensive, scholarly Carl Barks Library archive in 30 volumes, which was in black-and-white. Fantagraphics' 7.5" x 10.25" hardcover volumes are published in full color, as the stories originally were.^{[citation needed]}

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 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]

Volumes

Volume	Release	Title	Period	ISBN
7[3]	December 2011	Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes	1948-1949	978-1-606-99474-0
	June 2012 (planned)	Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man	1952–1954	978-1-606-99535-8

References

1. ^ De Haven, Tom (2011-11-09). "Donald Duck "Lost in the Andes"". The Comics Journal. http://www.tcj.com/reviews/donald-duck-lost-in-the-andes/. Retrieved 2011-11-10. 
2. ^ Boucher, Geoff (2011-10-11). "Donald Duck and Carl Barks: Fantagraphics goes on classics quest". Los Angeles Times. http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/10/11/donald-duck-and-carl-barks-fantagraphics-goes-on-classics-quest/#/0. Retrieved 2011-11-10. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Mautner, Chris (2011-01-02). "Exclusive: Fantagraphics to publish the complete Carl Barks". Comic Book Resources. http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/01/exclusive-fantagraphics-to-publish-the-complete-carl-barks/. Retrieved 2011-11-11.