Carl Barks The Fantagraphics Studio Edition
Carl Barks The Fantagraphics Studio Edition
Kim Weston, Carl Barks
9798875002465
Uitgeverij Fantagraphics
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Carl Barks: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition collects Barks’ preliminary pencil pages — or storyboards — of comics he wrote after
he retired from penciling and inking, serving as a perfectly legible
graphic storytelling map the finishing artist could follow. These
are fully written and designed stories — which include Barks’ hand
lettering — and can be read as easily as the rendered final versions.
The advantage to these original art renditions is that the reader
can not only appreciate but positively savor Barks’ gorgeous, nuanced
penciling. These pages display the architecture beneath Barks’ final
inked pages, revealing how fluid, vital, and effortless his finished panel-to-panel storytelling was, and how the subtlety of his character’s
facial expressions were baked into the pencil work. Writing the story
and breaking down the page graphically is the cartoonist’s first step
to creating a comic, and here is an opportunity to see one of the 20th
century’s greatest cartoonists thinking as drawing.
This book includes “King Scrooge the First,” the last Uncle Scrooge
story Barks wrote and one of his best, as well as “Pawns of the Loup
Garou” and many others. The pages are reproduced from high resolution
color scans and printed at the actual size they were drawn. The fidelity
to the original art is so uncannily realized that a page framed under glass
would be indistinguishable from the original. Every page convincingly
conveys the quality and expressivity of Barks’ pencil linework.
Also included are several cover sketches and finished pencil drawings that were never
published, and covers that were bought, finished, and submitted but never published. An
introduction by Barks expert and editor Kim Weston provides background information and
aesthetic commentary on the stories.
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