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Quote from user: Baar Baar JinxI swear I heard somewhere, several years ago, that there were Manga versions of Barks stories in existence. But searching the internet today reveals no trace of such a thing. Am I remembering this wrong, or does someone have further information on this? My mind cannot wrap around the idea of a Manga Scrooge, I need to see it if it exists.
There definitely WERE manga versions of Barks stories from the middle or end of the 1990s. I remember seeing only one complete story. It was a 4-page Gyro Gearloose story from a late 1950's Uncle Scrooge. It was the one in which Gyro invented a robot to do all the things he couldn't do. When Gyro was scared in a dark alley, by someone he thought was a robber, the robot hid in a rain barrel. The robot thought like Gyro. So, he was no help. I remember seeing that there were other stories drawn in the manga style. They weren't all Barks, and not all Duck stories. I remember a Mickey Mouse story, as well.

They were Danish Egmont productions, sometimes with an Egmont Spanish pencilier and Spanish inker, sometimes with a Spanish penciler and Dane, Flemming Andersen as inker, and sometimes with a Japanese artist (Shiraö Shirai) as penciler, inker or both.
I had seen those I saw in the Kopenhagen Egmont office when I was there in the early/mid 1990s.
Interesting that the only one of those stories that has an inside page shown (the rest have only the book's cover) was the one that I saw. Maybe it was the only sample that stayed in Egmont's offices?

Quote from user: Robb_KInteresting that the only one of those stories that has an inside page shown (the rest have only the book's cover) was the one that I saw. Maybe it was the only sample that stayed in Egmont's offices?
Is this an example of Barks-inspired manga art?

http://imageshack.us/a/img692/9162/36po.jpg

To be honest, it doesn't look very different from some European artists' work. I expected something more obviously manga-based, like this ...

http://imageshack.us/a/img23/7350/wzlg.jpg

Seriously though, how did the manga stories differ from the Barks originals? Was it just that the art was redone in a different style? Was the story changed? Does anyone have any scans that show what a typical page from one of these stories looked like apart from the one posted above? I wish we had seen some of them reprinted when we had Disney comics in the USA ...

Quote from user: Robb_KThe story was EXACTLY the same as Barks. Only the style of the artwork and number of pages and number of tiers per page was changed. Same number of panels-same action in each panel.
I wonder why Gladstone/Gemstone never printed any of these? I would have loved to have seen them.

Quote from user: AzureBlueQuote from user: Baar Baar JinxQuote from user: Robb_KThe story was EXACTLY the same as Barks. Only the style of the artwork and number of pages and number of tiers per page was changed. Same number of panels-same action in each panel.
I wonder why Gladstone/Gemstone never printed any of these? I would have loved to have seen them.
Agreed. I'm not a manga fan myself and would in all probabilty have liked the original Barks better, but I still would have thought it was really neat to see a couple.
Yes, it was interesting to see it. It was just as good a story to read. Art not as good, but better than some others of the Western Pub. artists.

Quote from user: Robb_KQuote from user: Baar Baar JinxTo be honest, it doesn't look very different from some European artists' work. I expected something more obviously manga-based, like this ...

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That's because it was drawn by a Spanish artist normally used for Egmont's Danish production.
Why is it considered manga then? I thought manga referred to a particular style of art, which these panels don't seem to conform to. For example, this is manga-style Star Wars.

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1015/schj.jpg

The manga influence is obvious. Do some of the the "Barks manga" stories have a similar look? Or am I wrong about what constitutes manga?

"Manga" does not always refer to a style of art. It's really just the Japanese word for "comic book", and in English is usually used to mean simply "Japanese comics". If these versions of Barks stories were written in Japanese, and created specifically to be sold in Japan, I suppose they could be called manga regardless of the style they were drawn in.
It's kind of ironic though that it was felt necessary to re-draw these stories to make them more appealing to Japanese readers, given that the "father of manga" himself, Osamu Tezuka, was a Barks fan!