<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Dean,<BR><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">I have a question for Gary Leach, David Gerstein, and/or Travis Seitler: Can you give us any hints about what we might expect from Gemstone in 2007? Pretty please! :) I realize though that it may be too early to give out hints and "reveal your hand". The one thing I had heard is that you plan on producing a deluxe version of Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck with *all* of the chapters included. Can you tell us any more plans past this? Two rather more specific question. One, is a Carl Barks library in a TPB format at least a twinkling in your eye yet? I don't think I have to say how much fanfare and acclaim such a project would get. Two, in 2007 or beyond is there a plan to publish TPBs on a regular basis.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Here's what I can offer from my remote outpost in Prescott, AZ: First, a deluxe LoS is being planned, with nifty extras - though I'd say it's highly unlikely to contain any actual chapters not included in the two softbound LoS volumes. Next, TPBs are working out well as an ongoing project of one-shots/mini-series; they really aren't meant to be "regular" publications. As for a TPB CBL, that's still at best a notion for the distant future; an American - i.e. English - version, in any format, awaits the completion of Egmont's version, which is still in the middle of production.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ah, here come the contractors to bash some more holes in our house. Gotta run!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV></BODY></HTML>