The Abbeville Press compilations

[timo ronkainen]

Hi!
 
Those Abbeville books are far from being uncredited. Although no names are on the cover except the Disney of course. Well, on the cover of "Mickey Mouse" it says "Introduction by Floyd Gottfredson".
Their origin is in Italy, surprisingly. Stories are reprints from Topolino magazines, where editors needed to change the layouts of the comics. That's why some panels are missing etc. 
Barks and Gottfredson wrote introductions to these Abbeville versions, but they are not included in original Italian or any other European editions. Otherwise these books are excat reproductions of these "Io" -books:
http://coa.inducks.org/publication.php?c=it/BIG
http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=it/BIG+++1A#d
Abbeville published also smaller hard cover books that are based on these big ones. Their page size is half of these and they contain only one story.
 
Best Wishes
Timo
^^''*''^^ Cartoonist - writer - donaldist --- Timo Ronkainen ---------------- - YO-kylä 52 A 26 ----------------- 20540 Turku --------------------- Finland -------------------------- - 044 20 46 455------------------ - timoro at hotmail.com timoro2 at yahoo.com  ¨¨  Personal: http://www.geocities.com/timoro2/ ¨¨  Ankkalinnan Pamaus: http://www.perunamaa.net/ankistit/ ¨¨  Kvaak-sarjakuvaportaali: http://www.kvaak.fi  "Rumble on, buxom bumble bee! Go sit on a cowslip - far from me!"> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:47:45 -0800> From: robertmhutchings at yahoo.com> Subject: The Abbeville Press compilations> To: dcml at nafsk.se> > Does anyone know anything about the Abbeville Press compilations of the late 1970s and early 1980s? There are several titles: "Donald and His Nephews," "Goofy," etc., all of which have about ten well known stories by--but uncredited--Barks and Gottfredson. What I'm wondering about is how the process of selecting the stories and editing worked. Most of the stories are missing a few panels--and it seems the panels that are missing are semi-randomly selected. They're never integral to the plot, but not all of the non-integral panels are deleted. Furthermore, sometimes there are additional panels drawn by someone other than Barks inserted instead of the Barks panels, with completely different dialogue--often borderline nonsensical within the story. There are even a few Barks-drawn panels that appear in Abbeville a few panels before they did in the original Barks version, and they have new dialogue (this is something only someone very familiar with the> stories would pick up on, though). It's almost as if Abbeville bought the stories by the panel, bought the dialogue separately, and both came "assembly-required" like a jig-saw puzzle rather than in any coherent manner. It's totally baffling. And, this goes way beyond any editing that Western did of Barks' and Gottfredson's stories--I know Western chopped some scenes from their stories, but there is at least some apparent logic to such editing. There's no discernable logic to the Abbeville editing.> > Robert Hutchings> > > > _______________________________________________> http://nafsk.se/mailman/listinfo/dcml
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