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Everyone, there's a huge difference between *wanting* to do something and actually *doing* it. We all know that Gemstone *wanted* to do some black & white Shonen Jump-style books last year... and those didn't end up happening, did they? Or take the Scandinavian Carl Barks Collection: it was on Egmont's drawing board for almost *ten years* before it came out.I've visited Amazon's website many times over the years, and I know that publishing dates, prices and contents information on upcoming publications often change before the publications are out. Why not postpone jumping up and down with joy until we at the very least have an official press release from Gemstone stating that they will indeed publish these projects at some specific date?
Everyone, there's a huge difference between *wanting* to do something and actually *doing* it. We all know that Gemstone *wanted* to do some black & white Shonen Jump-style books last year... and those didn't end up happening, did they? Or take the Scandinavian Carl Barks Collection: it was on Egmont's drawing board for almost *ten years* before it came out.I've visited Amazon's website many times over the years, and I know that publishing dates, prices and contents information on upcoming publications often change before the publications are out. Why not postpone jumping up and down with joy until we at the very least have an official press release from Gemstone stating that they will indeed publish these projects at some specific date?
I have, as of today, pre-ordered this amazing collection!If we get Carl Barks Collected Works without the childhood diseases, hysteric colouring and amatourish translations, this is the best that has happened to mankind since the invention of the bottle-opener......look forward to receive my copy by Nov-Dec 2008(But then again - one must be patient - it's been seen before, that this can be a long, slow and narrow path!)Regarding the ten Danish volumes of Carl Barks Samlede Værker - we are about to get to the finishing line AND by now the v"childhood deseases " are gone - GONE AT LAST!Now Egmont has send out requests about possible interests in continuing the series with three further volumes with Barks non-Disney series, his CEO's and other things, concerning his artistic life - which I, for one, finds most interesting...Keep on trucking!!
Carl Barks retired in 1966 but was persuaded by editor Chase Craig to script stories for Western. The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale ( The Dainty Daredevil ) published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 (Nov. 1968). When bibliographer Michael Barrier asked Barks about why he drew it, Barks' vague recollection was no one was available and he was asked to do it as a favor by editor Chase Craig.
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