Posted with the permission of Fantagraphics Books
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 <a href="https://comicvibe.com/inside-san-diego-comic/” title=”Inside San Diego Comic”>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.
They just published Volume 30, containing Barks’s work in 1963 and 1964, and it’s titled Uncle Scrooge: “Lost Beneath the Sea.”
This volume focuses on Uncle Scrooge, from a time when billionaires could still be seen as amusingly eccentric, as he drags his nephews Donald and Huey, Dewey, and Louie on fortune-seeking, and fortune-saving adventures. Even at this late stage of his career, Barks was spinning great yarns, and illustrating them gorgeously.
And Fantagraphics again reproduces them impeccably, with handsome packaging, superb fidelity and judicious, tasteful coloring.
Also in the volume are stories featuring the inventor Gyro Gearloose, including the very last Gearloose story Barks ever created, “Jonah Gyro.”
As always, the volume comes with great expert essays analyzing and explaining the context of each story, plus the stories’ comic book covers and other exhaustively researched ancillary material.
This volume also comes with bonus: a beautiful, giant Gyro Gearloose fold-out reproduction of a pin-up that was published in a 1969 comic book, finished by artist Larry Mayer from an Barks sketch.
The series is nearing completion, with only a couple of years of Barks output left, but Tucker Stone, Executive Director of Communications & Marketing at Fantagraphics, tells me that the final number of Complete Carl Barks Library volumes has not yet been set.
A new book collects the very first Donald Duck work of comic book legend Carl Barks
The latest Carl Barks Donald Duck volume: The Mystery of the Swamp
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “Only a Poor Old Man”
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