The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

The rights to Barks' works were licensed from Disney by Gemstone Publishing from 2003 until the end of 2008, when they ceased publishing Disney titles. When Fantagraphics Books publisher Gary Groth heard this, he contacted Disney and secured the publishing rights to Floyd Gottfredson's work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, resulting in the Floyd Gottfredson Library series that began publication in mid-2011. Groth also tried to obtain the publishing rights to Barks' duck stories. Disney at first announced they would publish the stories themselves, but eventually changed their minds and passed the work on to Fantagraphics. In 2014, Fantagraphics also began publishing a companion series, The Don Rosa Library, collecting the Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck stories written and drawn by Don Rosa. ==Format==

Barks' duck stories have been reprinted extensively, especially in Europe. Before Fantagraphics there were two complete collections in English published by Another Rainbow. The first was the expensive, scholarly Carl Barks Library (1984–1990) in 30 hardcover volumes collected in ten slipcase volumes with three books in each, which was in black-and-white. The second was Carl Barks Library in Color in softcover album format with modern colouring. Fantagraphics' 7.5 inches × 10.25 inches (19 cm × 26 cm) hardcover volumes are published in full color, as the stories originally were. When the series is complete, it will represent a chronological collection of Barks' stories. However, the volumes of the stories are being published out of order, starting with the volumes that the publishers believe will attract the most attention, starting with Lost in the Andes!, a volume containing stories from what is considered to be Barks' "peak" period (the late 1940s to the mid-1950s), including the title story "Lost in the Andes", which many fans consider to be representative of Barks' best work, and was Barks' own favorite. using the original comics as a coloring guide, unlike some of Fantagraphics' more scholarly reprints, as the books are aimed at a more general audience than many of Fantagraphics' other offerings, which are often aimed at the comics aficionados. ==Restoration==

Fantagraphics chose to have the artwork computer-recolored, using the original comics as color guides, rather than reprinting with the original off-register colors as they have in many of their other archival projects. Colorist Rich Tommaso has stuck closely to the original colors, although muting the originally garish ones somewhat in a concession to modern readers. Sometimes the colors were changed when it was known that Barks hadn't liked them, or when it was felt they could be corrected or improved. Some stories are printed from recently rediscovered original artwork. The edits are also present in the second printing. • Volume 28 - Missing content. • The cover for Uncle Scrooge #39 • The one-page story "Million Dollar Shower". • Note: Both are mentioned in "Where did these Duck stories first appear? on page 196, while nowhere to be found in the actual book. • Volume 4 - Missing content. • In "The Bill Collectors", the entire original page 3 is removed. • In "Swimming Swindlers" a cigarette in a kid's mouth has been deleted from multiple panels. • Volume 3 - Altered dialogue / removed content. • The story "Silent Night" has been omitted without explanation. • Dialogues in "The Icebox Robber" are published in an old censored version. • Volume 2 - Altered dialogue. • The story "Frozen Gold" has some altered dialogue. • Volume 1 - Missing content / altered art. • The story "Good Deeds" has been omitted without explanation. • In "The Mummy's ring" the dark makeup has been removed from the faces of the ducks in the last panel on page 18. ==Recognition==

• 2013 – The volume Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man was nominated for the Eisner Award in the category, "Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books". • 2015 – The volume Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn was nominated for the Eisner Award in the category, "Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books (at least 20 years old)". • 2022 – The volume Uncle Scrooge: Island in the Sky was nominated for the Eisner Award in the category, "Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)". ==Volumes and boxed sets==

∗ The Pied Piper of Duckburg: pages 1–3 script and pencils by Carl Barks in 1959; pages 4–8 script and finished art by Don Rosa in 1990, respectively Daan Jippes in 2006. ∗∗ Only scripts done by Barks; for Junior Woodchucks stories, art by Daan Jippes. Box sets Softcovers Fantagraphics has also published three paperback titles containing selected stories from the hardcover line. In comparison to the full size hardcover series which features stories in Barks' typical four-row format, the paperback line present the material in a two-row format at a page size of 7.3 × 5.5 inches. • Donald Duck: Ghost of the Grotto, 130 pages, 2014-10-04, • Donald Duck: Sheriff of Bullet Valley, 98 pages, 2015-04-10, • Donald Duck: The Golden Helmet, 130 pages, 2015-10-03, • Donald Duck Adventures Mini Collection, box with the 3 books, 2024-09-24, == Related ==

Free Comic Book Day 2012 In 2011 it was announced that Fantagrapics would participate in the Free Comic Book Day promotion campaign in May, 2012. For this occasion they would release a comic book titled, Disney's Donald Duck Family Comics, an issue featuring reprinted duck stories by Carl Barks. The issue contained the three stories: The Round Money Bin, Donald Duck's Worst Nightmare and Somethin' Fishy Here'', as well as eight one-page gag comics. ==Foreign versions==

Brazilian version The Brazilian version is titled Coleção Carl Barks Definitiva and was initially published by Editora Abril from 2016 to 2018, when the publisher ended its contract with Disney. In November 2019, Panini Comics resumed the collection. German version The German version is titled Onkel Dagobert und Donald Duck von Carl Barks and started November 2022. It was published by Egmont Comic Collection. As of 2024, only the first two volumes were published. Italian version Two volumes were published by Rizzoli Lizard in 2012-2013 before being canceled after the second volume. In November 2019, Panini Comics resumed the collection publishing "Le Storie di Natale di Barks", a box set that is the translation of the first Fantagraphics box set with volumes 5 and 11. In November 2022 Panini continued with volume 6. Box sets Russian version The Russian version is titled Библиотека Карла Баркса and is published by АСТ since 2017. ==See also==