Carl Barks

The second volume of Fantagraphics' reprinting of Carl Barks's classic Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge work, like last spring's Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man, focuses on the early 1950s, universally considered one of Barks's very peak periods. Originally published in 1951, "A Christmas for Shacktown" is one of Barks's masterpieces: A rare 32-pager that stays within the confines of Duckburg, featuring a storyline in which the Duck family works hard to raise money to throw a Christmas party for the poor children of the city's slums (depicted by Barks with surprisingly Dickensian grittiness), and climaxing in one of the most memorable images Barks ever created, the terrifying bottomless pit that swallows up all of Scrooge's money. But there's lots more gold to be found in this volume (literally), which features both the "The Golden Helmet" (a quest off the coast of Labrador for a relic that might grant the finder ownership of America, reducing more than one cast member to a state of Gollum-like covetousness) while "The Gilded Man" features a hunt for a rare stamp in South America--two more of Barks's thrilling full-length adventure stories. But that's less than half the volume This volume also features ten of Barks's smart and funny 10-pagers, including a double whammy of yarns co-starring Donald's insufferable cousin ("Gladstone's Usual Very Good Year" and "Gladstone's Terrible Secret"), as well as another nine of Barks's rarely seen one-page Duck gags... all painstakingly recolored to match the original coloring as exactly as possible, and supplemented with an extensive series of notes and behind-the-scenes essays by the foremost Duck experts in the world.

Since Fantagraphics first release in this series focused on Donald Duck, it is only right that the second focus on Carl Barks s other great protagonist, and his greatest creation: The miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses the Beagle Boys are well-known to, and beloved by, young and old. This volume starts off with Only a Poor Old Man, the defining Scrooge yarn (in fact his first big starring story) in which Scrooge s plan to hide his money in a lake goes terribly wrong. Two other long-form classics in this volume include Tralla La La (also known as the bottlecap story, in which Scrooge s intrusion has terrible consequences for a money-less eden) and Back to the Klondike (Barks disciple Don Rosa s favorite story, a crucial addition to Scrooge s early history, and famous for a censored bar brawl that was restored in later editions). Each of these three stories is famous enough to have its own lengthy Wikipedia page. Also in this volume are the full-length The Secret of Atlantis, and over two dozen more shorter stories and one-page gags. Newly recolored in a version that combines the warm, friendly, slightly muted feeling of the beloved classic original comic books with state-of-the-art crispness and reproduction quality, the stories are joined by another volume s worth of extensive Liner Notes, featuring fascinating behind-the-panels essays about the creation of the stories and analyses of their content from a world s worth of Disney and Barks experts.

Carl Barks Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics are considered among the greatest artistic and storytelling achievements in the history of the medium. After serving a stint at the Walt Disney studios as an in-betweener and a gag-man, Barks began drawing the comic book adventures of Donald Duck in 1942. He quickly mastered every aspect of cartooning and over the next nearly 30 years created some of the most memorable comics ever drawn as well as some of the most memorable characters: Barks introduced Uncle Scrooge, the charmed and insufferable Gladstone Gander, the daffy inventor Gyro Gearloose, the bumbling and heedless Beagle Boys, the Junior Woodchucks, and many others. Barks alternated between longish, sprawling 20- or 30-page adventure yarns filled with the romance of danger, courage, and derring-do, whose exotic locales spanned the globe, and shorter stories that usually revolved around crazily ingenious domestic squabbles between Donald and various members of the Duckburg cast. Barks s duck stories, famously enjoyed equally by both children and adults, are both evanescent celebrations of courage and perseverance and depictions of less commendable traits greed, resentment, and one-upmanship. Our initial volume begins when Barks had reached his peak 1948-1950. Highlights include: The title story, Lost in the Andes (Barks s own favorite). Donald and the nephews embark on an expedition to Peru to find where square eggs come from only to meet danger in a mysterious valley whose inhabitants all speak with a southern drawl, and where Huey, Dewey, and Louie save Unca Donald s life by learning how to blow square bubbles Two stories co-starring the unbearably lucky Gladstone, including the epic Race to the South Seas, as Donald and Gladstone try to win Uncle Scrooge s favor by being the first to rescue him from a desert island. Two Christmas stories, including The Golden Christmas Tree, one of Barks s most fantastic stories that pits him and the nephews against a witch who wants to destroy all the Christmas trees in the world. In other stories, Donald plays a TV quiz show contestant and ends up encased in a giant barrel of "Shaky-Jell," a truant officer who matches wits with his nephews, and a ranch hand who outwits cattle rustlers. These new editions feature meticulously restored and re-colored pages in a beautifully designed, affordable format geared to the mainstream book buyer. Discover the genius of Carl Barks

Et av de mest fascinerende temaene hos Barks er Skrue og Donalds møter med små, rare folk - alt fra pygméindianere til små grønne menn fra verdensrommet. Og nå skal vi oppdage at fascinasjonen ikke slutter ved at de er små og eksotiske - like interessant er det at Barks har ønsket å si oss noe i disse møtene. Historiene er valgt ut og kommentert av Barks-ekspert og litteraturkjenner Geoffrey Blum. Utvalget omfatter noen av våre absolutte favoritter, bl.a. "Eggmysteriet" som er spesielt berømt i Norge for at de små raringene snakker Vossamål.

Carl Barks klarte alltid på en mesterlig måte å fortelle om menneskers dårskap, forfengelighet og misunnelse. I serien Hall of Fame gjør vi dypdykk i Barks' observasjoner av livet i Andeby - denne gangen med fokus på sjalusi og rivalisering. Du får blant annet se Donald og Anton konkurrere om å være mest ridderlig, og i slåsskamp om gamle kjærlighetsbrev. De to kamphanene rivaliserer om å finne en tusenfryd, en smaragd og å vinne en popularitetskonkurranse blant Andebys barn. I tillegg blottlegges Dollys sjalusi i det hun ser Donald gjøre andre kvinner vakre, eller da havets dronning legger an på kjæresten hennes. Forordet er skrevet av serieskaper Tommy Sydsæter, som er kjent for sin Donald-parodi Dølle Døck.

I år 835 ble det bygget et norsk vikingskip som er så berømt at det står en kopi av det i museet i Andeby, hvor Donald er museumsvakt. Skipet er Osebergskipet, som ble funnet i en gravhaug i 1903, og nå står på Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy i Oslo. Akkurat dette skipet får Donald til å drømme seg bort til "sånn barsk moro som vikingene hadde, som sloss mot hvaler og seilte over havet i åpen båt!" Denne drømmen drar Donald ut i vikingenes fotspor, i klassikeren "Donald Duck og gullhjelmen". I en annen historie er det i Antons fotspor Donald drar, men da finner han og nevøene til gjengjeld et helt intakt vikingskip, i historien "Donald Duck på Grønland". Disse to historiene - begge skrevet og tegnet av Carl Barks - finnes i denne praktboken som handler om nettopp Osebergskipet og den spennende historien om vikingene og skipet deres. Den faglige delen er skrevet av arkeolog Knut Paasche, som har forsket på Osebergskipets utforming og sjødyktighet. Boken er blitt til i samarbeid med Kulturhistorisk museum, og er rikt illustrert med unike bilder fra funnet av skipet og skattene som ble funnet i gravhaugen. De to tegneseriene er kommentert med tanke på hva som er fakta og fantasi i fortellingene.

Die zehnseitigen Donald Duck Geschichten, mit denen Carl Barks ab 1943 das Fundament für Entenhausen legte, bilden das Kernstück seines umfangreichen Werks. In dieser 17-bändigen Reihe kommen all diese ergänzt durch einen ausführlichen Kommentar zur Zeitgeschichte zum Abdruck. Mit der Reedition der Bände 1, 3, 4 und 6 wird diese erfolgreiche Reihe wieder komplett lieferbar sein.

Die zehnseitigen Donald Duck Geschichten, mit denen Carl Barks ab 1943 das Fundament für Entenhausen legte, bilden das Kernstück seines umfangreichen Werks. In dieser 17-bändigen Reihe kommen all diese ergänzt durch einen ausführlichen Kommentar zur Zeitgeschichte zum Abdruck. Mit der Reedition der Bände 1, 3, 4 und 6 wird diese erfolgreiche Reihe wieder komplett lieferbar sein.

Boka inneholder historiene: Dårlig dag for patrulje A, Lønn for strevet, Hurra for søplegjengen, Hevnen er sur, Operasjon ørn, Stormende dansetrinn, Hunden fra jammeråsen, Katastrofe klatretur, Når krybben er tom, bites hestene, Katastrofer i kø, Så samles vi på hvalen, Beinharde tider. I tillegg er det introduksjoner med Carl Barks egne originale skisser.

Carl Barks, tecknaren som skapade figurer som Farbror Joakim och Alexander Lukas, är säkert tidernas mest älskade serieberättare! Hans Kalle Anka-serier från 40- och 50-talen är klassiker som otaliga vuxna har livliga barndomsminnen av, och som ideligen trycks om för nya generationer barn och vuxna, både i serietidningar och i dyra bokutgåvor. Men Barks serier från fyrtiotalet om björnen Bruno och åsnan Benny har märkligt nog och alldeles orättvist förblivit nästan okända. Fast också de är underbart roliga, suveräna farshistorier om Brunos och Bennys galna påhitt, berättade med härlig fantasi, säker timing och en obetalbar mimik hos figurerna. Detta är det första försöket överhuvudtaget i hela världen att samla dessa små mästerverk i album i kronologisk följd från början. Innan Benny och Bruno blir ett par, upplever Benny tre äventyr på egen hand med bävrar, med en ilsken varg och med en härlig fåfäng papegoja. Därefter slår han följe med Bruno, och tillsammans ger de sig ut på älgjakt och löser gåtan om spöktrumpeten i en övergiven håla i Vilda Västern. Albumet innehåller också ett efterord av Horst Schröder om Bruno Björns karriär i den tecknade filmen och i serievärlden.