MMiC and "The Fine Art Book"

[Gary Leach]

My best answer to the inquiries about "Mickey Mouse in Color" and "The 
Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck" is this:

No editions of these books have been produced since their original 
publications by Another Rainbow, and there are no current plans to 
produce new editions.

Beyond that, I would second that both books were, indeed, labors of 
love. I was not around for the production of "The Fine Art of Walt 
Disney's Donald Duck", but I believe the result speaks for itself on 
that score. As for "Mickey Mouse in Color", again I was not involved in 
the original planning, but was definitely up to my neck in the actual 
production - as was John Clark and Susan Daigle-Leach, among others. 
It, too, was a grand vision realized, though I have to admit that the 
battle scars from getting it published have left me a little less able 
to appreciate it for its own sake.

One of the great missed opportunities of publishing was the plan to 
have both Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks do a special remarqued 
edition of the upscale version of "Mickey Mouse in Color". Barks did 
his drawings - of Donald, in pencil - but, sadly, Gottfredson passed 
away before he could do his complementary drawings. Barks' drawings 
were bound into the planned number of books, but to look at one leaves 
one rather wistful for what could have been.

A few years ago, as I may have mentioned before on this mailing list, 
there was a plan to do a new edition of "The Fine Art..." book, 
utilizing new reproduction techniques. This plan has seen no progress 
for some time, and may never come about...but it remains a possibility.

Gary