The Unavailable Carl Barks (in color) Direct Sales Edition - Couverture souple

Weston, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1722975121 ISBN 13 : 9781722975128

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Ten stories by Carl Barks in this book, mostly unavailable since their original printings in comic books, are collected here together for the first time. The stories include 3 early Benny Burro stories, 2 early Droopy stories (actually titled Happy Hound), and an Andy Panda story from 1943, a 24 page Porky Pig story from 1944, and 3 more Droopy stories from 1952 and 1953. Also included are 2 Barney Bear and Benny Burro stories from 1945. All of the stories are sourced from high quality masters except for three for which there are no known surviving masters: Andy Panda, Porky Pig, and one of the 1953 Droopy stories. As collected in this book, newly colored and sourced from original masters, the stories look much better in this book than in previous printings. In this edition, the Porky Pig story has been newly restored with new black line plates and completely recolored. It looks much better than the original printing or any subsequent reprints. The Andy Panda and 1953 Droopy story also have been restored with new black line plates and their color has been cleaned up and partially recolored; this also represents a significant improvement over an earlier edition of this book. The 2 Happy Hound stories were altered from the way Barks drew them before their original publication and appear in restored versions which are intended to showcase them as Barks originally intended for them to be seen. The same is true for the 2 Barney Bear and Benny Burro stories; indeed, that is the reason for their inclusion here, despite being reprinted in another book recently. All 26 Barney Bear and Benny Burro stories, the bulk of Barks’ non-Disney work, are in print in the USA in another book, The Carl Barks Big Book of Barney Bear; unfortunately original masters were not used for their reproduction.*******Every story that Carl Barks wrote or drew featuring Disney characters during his career as a comic book creator has been reprinted, often many times, in comic books and albums, and books. The Disney work is the most important of Barks’ work, but Barks also wrote and/or drew 36 other comic book stories featuring non-Disney characters between 1943 and 1953; these have been less-well served in reprinting and are much less well-known. They are generally comparable in quality to the average of the Donald Duck work he was doing at the same time. A few of them are quite creative and delightful, and stand well with the best short story work he was doing at the time. Most of them have been out-of-print since their publication decades ago in comic books. This book is intended to remedy that situation.*******When combined with Craig Yoe and IDW’s The Carl Barks Big Book of Barney Bear, The Unavailable Carl Barks (in color) brings back into print all of the non-Disney comic book stories written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. Owners of the earlier edition of The Unavailable Carl Barks (in color) may also be interested in Restoring Carl Barks, a short book which collects only the same newly restored versions of the Porky Pig, Andy Panda, and 1953 Droopy story that appear in this revised edition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kim Weston is a long time Barks fan and scholar who has contributed to Mike Barrier’s magazine, Funnyworld, as well as the Barks Bibliography, and has contributed to a number of other books including Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book, An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck, Uncle Scrooge McDuck:  His Life and Times, The Carl Barks Library, Fantagraphics’ ongoing series, The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, and The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial. He has contributed Barks and Disney information to the Overstreet Price Guide and scripted The Ultimate Barks Collector gag page drawn by Walter Simonson. He has written occasionally on Barks’ work for the past 45+ years, contributing to Barks and Disney scholarship mostly for a small audience in an Amateur Press Alliance. That is where he commissioned Jack L. Chalker to write the article which was first published in that Amateur Press Alliance and which was later expanded to become Chalker’s book, An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck. That work was one of the influences that later inspired Don Rosa to do his own comic book series, the well-loved Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. In the past several years, he has also written and published several of his own books including The Complete Carl Barks Index (indexing ALL of Barks’ comic book work) and The Carl Barks Index (indexing the Fantagraphics Books series, The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1722975121
• ISBN 13: 9781722975128
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg