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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><EM>Carl Barks and the Disney Comic
Book:</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><EM>Unmasking the Myth of
Modernity</EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>By Thomas Andrae</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>University Press of Mississippi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>ISBN 1-57806-857-6, unjacketed cloth, $50.00</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>ISBN 1-57806-858-4, paper, $20.00</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><U>Book news for immediate release</U></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>The work of Scrooge McDuck creator
Carl Barks told more than a Disney story</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Comic books have become highly priced collectors’ items in
a booming nostalgia market. But Thomas Andrae argues that some comic artists
have merit beyond money.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>"Comics are valued for more than sentimental reasons or
monetary value," Andrae writes in <I><STRONG>Carl Barks and the Disney Comic
Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity</STRONG> </I>(University Press of
Mississippi). "They are now celebrated as works of art, and an audience of
aficionados has enshrined a pantheon of artists as the medium’s greatest
auteurs. Chief among these is Carl Barks."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Andrae’s book, the first critical study of Barks’s work in
English, is also the first book in the Great Comic Artists Series. From a
cultural studies perspective, the author analyzes all phases of Barks’s career
from his work in animation to his postretirement years writing the Junior
Woodchucks stories.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>For over twenty-five years, Disney artist Carl Barks
(1901–2000) created some of the most brilliant and funny stories in comic books.
Gifted and prolific, he was the author of over five hundred tales in the most
popular comic books of all time. Barks created the town of Duckburg and a cast
of characters that included Donald Duck’s fabulously wealthy Uncle Scrooge and
many other memorable characters.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Andrae claims that Barks’s work presents a vision
strikingly different from Disney’s mainstream. Barks’s tales offer a satire of
Western imperialism and America’s obsession with wealth, success, consumerism,
and technological mastery. Although a talented visual artist, Barks was also one
of America’s greatest storytellers and, Andrae contends, lifted the comic book
form to the level of great literature.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Thomas Andrae</STRONG>, an instructor in the
cinema department of San Francisco State University, is the senior editor and
cofounder of <I>Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and
Culture</I>. He produced <I>The Duck Man</I>, a feature-length documentary on
Carl Barks, and was an editor of the Carl Barks Library.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>For more information contact Steven B. Yates, (601)
432-6205, syates@ihl.state.ms.us . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Read more about the book at
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/spring2006/carl_barks_disney.html
.</FONT></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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