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I firmly believe that Don Rosa and William Van Horn are the two best Duck comic artists since Barks. Rosa's long adventure comics are easily the best ones of the last 50 years and nobody has made so many terrific 10 pagers as Van Horn has since Barks retired. It's great to see that Rosa is getting his well deserved English comic collection and I believe Fantagraphics should seriously consider publishing Van Horn's Duck comics as a follow-up. They are already publishing three different Disney comic collections currently, so they would probably want to wait for at least one of these to be finished before starting a 4th one (and I believe the Don Rosa Library will be the first one to be completed).

Van Horn is still active, but he is making new Duck comics at a very slow pace and I think he will probably retire in the next 5 to 10 years, so starting publishing a complete William Van Horn Library a few years from now wouldn't be futile. If I'm correct, all his Duck comics could be published in 9-10 books (each of them about 200 pages long). As great as a complete Van Horn Library would be, I know that he isn't as popular as Barks, Rosa or Gottfredson even, so Fantagraphics could consider publishing a shorter "Best of Van Horn" series instead if they believe a complete collection wouldn't sell. (Or does Fantagraphics have a license for publishing only complete collections?) I'm thinking 3 books:

The Best of William Van Horn (Volume I): THE BLACK MOON
- The Black Moon (D 92207)
- The Amazon Queen (AR 154)
- The Pauper's Glass (D 92206)
- the 10 best tenpagers (and shorter gag stories) from 1988 to 1999

The Best of William Van Horn (Volume II): THE HAUNTLAND TREASURE
- The Hauntland Treasure (AR 216)
- Horsing Around With History (D 94003)
- The Saphead Factor (D 96365)
- the 10 best tenpagers (and shorter gag stories) from 2000 to 2010

The Best of William Van Horn (Volume III): SECRETS
- Secrets (D 98154)
- Fools Of The Trade (D 99051)
- Travails (D 99053)
- all the newer Van Horn stories not yet published in English (currently about 150 pages)

So each book would contain 3 longer comics (Van Horn only made 13 comics longer than 14 pages), volume I & II would also contain 20 of his very best ten-pagers and volume III would also contain all his comics not yet published in English.

One can dream...

I would certainly buy a collection of William Van Horn's Disney work. And I certainly prefer a complete collection rather than a "Best of".

Cool. Does that even include his Duck Tales Stories as well as his Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge Stories?

That is so true Mustang Rockstar

Quote from user: Roger NorthCool. Does that even include his Duck Tales Stories as well as his Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge Stories?
Good question. I'm pretty sure they will; or at least, I don't see how Fantagraphics would omit so many of the Disney stories that Van Horn produced early on in his tenure.

I would definitely be interested in a William Van Horn Library! I enjoy his storytelling and art.
It's still hard to believe that we are getting complete libraries of Carl Barks and Don Rosa...Plus Artist Editions and new Disney books in the USA? I encourage everyone to keep supporting the work of IDW and Fantagraphics.
A little off-topic but I have been very pleased with the new Uncle Scrooge comics by IDW and can't wait to read the new Donald Duck tomorrow!

Van Horn is great (though I think he'd be greater if he hadn't given up writing the odd adventure story), but I think he's best consumed in bits--I can't help feeling a complete collection would have one's eyes glazing over a bit after a while (which isn't to say I wouldn't buy it, of course...).

I`d buy it. The story where Van Horn invented Rumpus McFowl was one of the first stories I read as a kid (Published in Norwegian DD in August 1994). I loved it then, and I love it now. Van Horn is great, and he`s made a lot of stories I`ve yet to read.