Fantagraphics first volume reprinting Carl Barks' Disney Duck work is a superb collection. Printed on an off white, matte surface paper in the original flat comic book coloring this is like reading a very high end comic book. This edition covers Barks work from 1948 - 1949 and includes four long adventures, several 8 and 10 pagers, as well as several one page gags. Covers from the Dell originals are included along with analysis of the individual stories.
I first became aware of Carl Barks through articles in the Comics Journal in the Seventies and Eighties and now I am able to collect his work via this beautiful series. Guess I owe a word of thanks to Fantagraphics.
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This is a great book. My only complaint -- and it's admitedly a minor one -- is that although the stories reprinted form a discrete "chronological block" (that is, it's all the Barks stories within a specific time period), they aren't reprinted in chron order within the book. Rather, they are printed in groups in the order you describe: long adventures, then shorter stories, then gag pages. This shouldn't bother me, but it does (a little).
...I thought that this might be some Fantagraphics " Ducks In Comics " anthology...and finally I'd be able to see what I believe was the FIRST anthomorphic comic-strip duck character in America , JOHNNY QUACK , was about !!!!!!!!!
I'd not heard of him, but I can help you out. There are strips here.
...Thank you:-)!!!!!!!!!!!
More later , I think I may have tried , if not that site , some attempt to see if there were JQ strips on the Web , and emerged fruitless...Another strip oddity of a strip that involved animals and persisted into the Sixties that I've occasionally found on the Web is JOE AND ASBESTOS ( which , NSFW possibly , involves ethnic humorous sterotyping of a kind not acceptable now )...........
I bought that book for my niece. She is three, and she lit up when she unwrapped it for Christmas. Not as much as she did when she unwrapped all of the Barbie-sized Disney Princesses I bought her (I'm such a sucker--got her all of the ones she didn't have already), but I look at that book as more of a timed-release gift. She won't truly appreciate it now except for the pictures of Donald Duck and his nephews, but one day I hope she will go back and read it and love it for the treasure that it is.
...The JQ link is now gone . Could you try again , Luke , please ? I'll try some too .
Luke Blanchard said:
I've not been to the Barnacle Press website for a while, so I don't know what's been happening there. After I saw your post I went to the website and found I could load its homepage and some of its pages but not get to the strip archives. The latest strip addition is dated Apr. 11 2013, so I'm hopeful the site operators mean to keep it going and this will be a temporary situation (but worried too, as it was a wonderful archive and it wouldn't be the first time a site I've liked has closed down).
I found three of the JQ strips at Internet Archive. To get to them enter the JQ URL in the WaybackMachine search box, select one of the saved versions of the page, and click on the links for Nov 14 1909, Dec 12 1909 and Jan 16 1910. (If you click on the other boxes you get a message that Internet Archive doesn't have that page and an offer to search for related ones it does have, which is how I was led to these images.)
I was eventually able to get into the "Comic Supplement" section at the Barnacle Press website, where the comics are, but not through to the Johnny Quack archive.
Since this thread has hopped back into play, I'll just mention that the Fantagraphics Duck and Mouse reprint collections are turning out to be every bit as terrific as I'd hoped for, and well-worth the $$$. I'm at the point of pre-ordering everything, sight unseen.
...Thank you , Luke , though I may not be able 2 check it now & maybe not for a while:-(...........
Doctor , than howcum , when I posted about finding the first volume in the Gottfredson Mouse series cheep (which includes the " actually written by Walk/drawn by Ub !!!!!!!!!!! " first weeks , plus a few other atrists who spelled/tried out for the gig , I suppose , in the course of the book as well. ) , and commented about it here , IIRC no one siad anything ?????????
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