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Maybe Fantagraphics is producing smaller print runs on their newer books? I hope that won't be a problem for those of us who really can't preorder things too far in advance. If Amazon won't have them, there are other places to go, including Fantagraphics themselves. Shame, though, because Amazon's shipping is usually the fastest. I have managed to find most of the Mickey Mouse volumes except either book 2 or 3 at our local Barnes and Noble. They are less reliable for having the Barks books in stock.

I am not very happy about this. I usually preorder but only a month of two in advance. I know you can order them from Fantagraphics, but with Amazon's discounted price you can save close to $50(not counting the free shipping, which through Fantagraphics will cost at least $8 for one book) when purchasing the Gottredson box set, the Rosa box set and the two Barks books. I don't see why Amazon can't take preorders and inform Fantagraphics how many they will need and they could adjust their print run to accomodate them. If you know a book is sold before you print it how could you lose.

One would suspect it had something to do with the kickstarter. Gottfredson, of course, is similarly affected. Even with Amazon's shipping and price cuts, it was awfully tight to get these books.

They came back. I will pre order mine as soon as possible. :D

I just order my copy today!
This is the 6th volume. I wonder how long it will take until we see the complete collection. 2026? I hope it won't take THAT long.

Quote from user: skritterQuote from user: misterpomI just order my copy today!

This is the 6th volume. I wonder how long it will take until we see the complete collection. 2026? I hope it won't take THAT long.
2 volumes a year, 30 volumes = 15 years overall
I will be 79 years old when it will be finished. I'll only have about 20 years, maximum, to enjoy the completed set. I wish Dutch Disney would have printed a version of the Scandinavian Barks collection. I am a half owner of the German set, but I'm only with it for 2 months each year and I HATE reading the cumbersome German language. And they printed my photos in my article in black and white, rather than in colour (unlike The Scandinavians).

Still, I am glad that Fantagraphics is printing an English version, and that it is sold at such a reasonable cost. I just have to continue to eat healthily and exercise, so I will be around to enjoy my Barks volumes (and so I won't feel pressure to continue and finish hand-colouring my own "Works of Carl Barks" volumes, which I started in 1966. Unfortunately, I had them bound before we found several pages of his unpublished art.

Misterpom, I don't have kids myself, but I have managed to enlist all children close to me as Disney comics fans themselves, so no teasing from that direction! The key is to hook them when they're very young, before they realize that "funny animal comics" are thought to be kiddie-fare and uncool. Start with Bucky Bug and simpler duck stories for the preschoolers. Seven- or eight-year-olds will start loving the long adventure stories by Barks and various other creators ("Pirate Gold" did the trick for one seven-year-old boy!), and a few years later they'll be dedicated Don Rosa fans. (Obviously, these ages are approximations.) If you don't want to share your own comics with small children, it's pretty easy to get cheap reading-quality copies of good duck comics to give them. Some people have found the DVDs of DuckTales and Darkwing Duck useful as an entry drug, but all the children I'm close to were already comics-readers before they watched any of those. Once the children are internet-savvy, you can introduce them to Inducks and to Duckfan websites around the world. That can help them withstand the peer scorn: People in Finland (Brazil, Italy, wherever) Know This Is Cool. When they start studying a foreign language in school, try to get them Disney comics in that language--ideally, translations of stories they already know, at first. They might find that they can safely show these off in class: the fact that they're in a foreign language may make them seem cool, or at least exotic enough to be immune to the social disdain American kids dish out to comics with English-speaking ducks.