''The Carl Barks Library'' (''CBL'') is a series of 30 large hardcover books reprinting all of the
Disney comics
Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring characters created by the Walt Disney Company, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge.
The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on, starting with ...
stories and covers written and/or drawn by
Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck ...
. Stories that were modified in the original publication, sometimes for production reasons and sometimes due to excessive editing, were restored in CBL to Barks' original intent.
The books are collected in ten slipcase volumes with three books in each, a total of about 7,400 pages. The volumes were published from 1983 to 1990 in the
United States by
Another Rainbow Publishing under license from
The Walt Disney Company. The comics were printed (with a few exceptions) in black and white. In addition to the comics, there are numerous articles with background information.
Volume sets
Reprintings
Gladstone Publishing
Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. The company had its origins as a subsidiary of Another Rainbow Publishing, a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran to ...
(a subsidiary of Another Rainbow) published a full-color version, ''
The Carl Barks Library in Color
''The Carl Barks Library in Color'' is a series of 141 Disney comics albums reprinting most of the Duck comics written and/or drawn by Carl Barks. The set was published by Gladstone Comics from 1992 to 1998.
The series is a full-color reprinting ...
'', in a series of 141 comic book albums between 1992 and 1998.
Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.
History
Founding
Fantagraphics was found ...
is currently collecting all of Barks' work as a hardcover collection, ''
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library''.
See also
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The Carl Barks Collection
The Carl Barks Collection is a series of books from the Disney licensee Egmont containing all Disney comics and covers written and/or drawn by Carl Barks, collected in chronological order. It also includes significant textual materials (articles ...
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List of Disney comics by Carl Barks
Carl Barks (1901–2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and Disney comic book creator. The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames ''The Duck Man'' and ''The Good Duck Artist''.
This list of Carl Barks' Disney sto ...
References
External links
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30 Volume Carl Barks Library – by Another Rainbow*http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/cbl.html
*http://www.seriesam.com/barks/deta_text_s_cblh.html
Donald Duck
Comic book collection books
Eisner Award winners
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Another Rainbow titles
Comics by Carl Barks
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