The official product page is live for a massive addition to the archival Duck library: Carl Barks: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition. Curated and restored by Disney comics historian Kim Weston, this oversized volume bypasses traditional coloring and commercial restoration to replicate Barks’ original raw ink pages, rare storyboard scripts, and pencil layouts exactly as they were created.
The Concept: Raw Production Art & Rare Scripts
Unlike standard comic collections, a “Studio Edition” prints high-resolution, 1:1 scans of physical art boards and archival working documents. The pages are deliberately left uncolored and unedited. This format allows process enthusiasts to study the actual mechanics of Barks’ work—from visible pencil lines and physical white-out corrections to blue-pencil editorial notes.
What makes this specific volume spectacular is its focus on rare storyboard scripts, outlines, and completely unused cover ideas that give a behind-the-scenes look at how these iconic stories evolved.
Complete Table of Contents
Here is the full breakdown of everything included in this volume:
- Introduction by Kim Weston (iv)
- “King Scrooge the First” storyboard script (1)
- “King Scrooge the First” unused cover idea (22)
- “Pawns of the Loup Garou” storyboard script (23)
- “Pawns of the Loup Garou” unused cover idea (44)
- “Bottled Battlers” storyboard script (45)
- “Eagle Savers” storyboard script (57)
- “Wailing Whalers” storyboard script (69)
- “Where There’s Smoke” storyboard script (87)
- “The Phantom Joker” storyboard script (103)
- “New Zoo Brews Ado” storyboard script (119)
- “The Mines of King Solomon” two unused cover ideas (136)
- Two unused cover ideas, circa 1960 (138)
- “Cake Cutting Harp” unused cover idea (139)
- “Uncle Scrooge, the Lemonade King” unused cover idea (140)
- Drawing for Timmie Robinson (141)
- Uncle Scrooge #43 finished pencil cover idea (142)
- Uncle Scrooge #43 cover oil painting (143)
- “3 Batters” (144)
- “Lost Beneath the Sea” unused cover idea (145)
- “The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack” unused cover idea (146)
- “The Cattle King” unused cover idea (147)
- Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #405 cover pencil art (148)
- “Beach Boy” sketches (149)
- “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” unused gag ideas (150)
- “Alpine Climbers” animation pencil art (152)
- “Mystery of the Ghost Town Railroad” script page (154)
- Letter to Carsten Jacobsen (155)
- “Gyro Gearloose and the Flying Carpet” story outline (156)
- Story Notes (161)
Product Details
- Title: Carl Barks: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition
- Editor & Restoration: Kim Weston
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Format: Hardcover, Oversized Artist’s Edition
- Price: $150.00
You can explore the full specifications and view preview details directly on the Fantagraphics Product Page.
For process geeks and Barks purists, seeing storyboard scripts and unedited layouts at original size changes everything about how we understand his creative workflow.ing these stories printed at original size without standard coloring changes everything about how you read his work.