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Thank you, Arild. I really appreciate the information! It's a beautiful looking book.

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Quote from user: Arild(But I think a German version is closer to reality than an English...If I should bet on it :D)
And I was right:

Carl Barks - Die ?lgemälde
October 2012

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Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderThere also seems be something about this being the German version of "The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck".
This is the German edition of the Scandinavian CBSV Ekstra. As such, it will contain much more material then the Fine Art book: the oils from the 1980s and 1990s as well as the Disney watercolors and colored-pencil drawings. 416 pages.

Quote from user: Charlie BrownThe German book will be available starting October 11, 2012. Preorders have already started. Looks pretty impressive!!
A very nice book indeed. And especially more text than I thought. I thought there would be only something like one introduction essay and then a cut with the actual picture part starting, only having short data about title and year of making at the bottom--as one sees it so often in art books.

But in fact there in one longer introduction essay, and then there are more than half a dozen shorter texts running through the whole book explaining different aspects and periods of Barks painting work. And also the accompanying texts to the single paintings sometimes get enjoyably extensive and carry much detailed information. With all that pictures and text do not stay separated but really intercat and mesh.

Didn't find time yet to read-look the book, and it will take longer than I thought, I guess, but I welcome that.

The book is so nice that I even bought two of it for me. One to read and "use" and one to stay maiden-like pure and untouched (the best would be to take it, of course wearing a protection suite, and lock it in a container that would survive a nuclear war). An old neurosis of mine I cultivated already as eleen-year-old with cheap comic books, especially such of Barksian content. However, I hardly to that anymore today, not to speak of doing it with books that are so expensive. With this book, however, my old instinct immediately came up from deepest depths and blazed its trail without resistance.

First, the German edition is virtually the same as the Norwegian edition, with just a few minor corrections and enhancements. And an additional dust-cover jacket.
That said, it is indeed a shame that there's no English edition. Egmont Norway even has Geoff Blum's original English texts all typeset and layouted. Any U.S. publisher would just have to get the PDF and take it to the printer's (and fork over a considerable amount of money to Oslo, I presume).

I debated it, but I have decided to wait and hope for an English edition. I would love to eye the art but I really want to be able to read the comments, too. I worry if I buy the German edition an English edition will come out right afterwards. Then I will be stuck with the German editon in the US that I can't sell, I'll be out my money, and not have what I really want. It might turn out for me like the Donald Duck story where he ends up owing Uncle Scrooge a fortune for a bag of no longer rare coins.

Patrick Hanifin
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Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down Underyou'd only have to translate
They wouldn't have to translate a thing. Geoff Blum wrote his texts in English.