CARL BARKS COMICS & STORIES Original Art Edition MGM Volume 2

13 complete Carl Barks stories in their original, full-size black-and-white format -- one full page of art on each page. These Barney Bear & Benny Burro stories were originally published in Our Gang Comics #11-23, and another volume containing the rest of the stories from Our Gang Comics #24-36  is planned for next year, yielding Barks' Complete MGM art in 3 volumes! This second volume measures 18 inches wide and 26 inches tall and weighs in at about 8 pounds! Looking at these pages as printed in this book is like looking at the pages fresh from the master's drawing board! The stories are printed one art page to the book page, with a live image size of 16 inches x 23 1/4 inches -- the size that Barks drew almost all his original art at, beginning in December 1943 until he retired in 1966, with only very rare exceptions. These pages are printed from proofs which are derived from the 7 x 10 photo negatives taken of the original art between December 1943 and December 1945. Looking at the stories in this book really is like looking at pages of Barks' original art because Barks didn't make many mistakes that needed correction in his art. His main use of white ink was not to correct errors, but to delineate details in black on black images or add pie cuts to the ducks' eyes. These are classics, where Barks cut his teeth preparing to create his most famous work on Donald Duck and the crew, to his own creation of Uncle Scrooge. They have the same hilarious elements to be found in the Duck stories; goofy situations, silly characters, wonderful sight gags...Barks was previously working on the Disney shorts (cartoons) and his move into comics was as smooth as glass. He became The Duck Man; here is his first comics work. - Bud Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge.