The literary world is full of unlikely heroes: a kid with glasses who lives in a cupboard under the stairs, a reluctant Hobbit, a plain girl from District 12, and now, a man with no pants and his talking cat.
Fantagraphics Books is nearing completion of its ambitious mission to publish the entirety of master cartoonist Carl Barks’s 1942-1966 run of Donald Duck comics for Western Publishing. Comics fans (full disclosure: including me) and historians generally consider it one of the best, if not the best, comic book runs of all time.
