Looks great!

Are the comics in English? "Jumbo size" and "Happy Birthday" sounds like English

Chisel McSue wrote:

hello guys,
just recently the local publisher publish a one-shot 20-page comic with carl barks' oil painting calendar as the cover, which in turn caught my eyes and I decided to buy it despite it's humongous size for a comic book.

There have been GIANT comic book-style books before.  To wit:  "Die Grosse Welt Von Entenhausen" by Jan Gulbransson.


The following is a description of it from Nils Lid Hjort, with comments from me (taken from an old DCML thread):

Die Grosse Welt Von Entenhausen:

Is this a well-known book? I did not know about it until very
recently, and was delighted to stumble upon it. This is what
I posted at Facebook's "iRead" application (where people
may post reviews etc.):

Carl Barks / Jan Gulbransson: Die grosse Welt von Entenhausen (1988)

It is a deep pleasure to stumble across this wondrous book - since this is a book I did not know
existed, until last week (in spite of my reasonably broad exposure to and
knowledge of Duckdom). It does say "copyright Walt Disney", and it is
properly published, by a German publishing company, but it also smells
suitably bootleggy and underground. I do not think it has ever been
published or distributed outside some small circles in the deeper cultural
forests of Germany.

Its size is not merely Big, but Giant: 40 cm x 60 cm, and it has almost no
words. So what is this what? It is a supreme but humble hom[m]age to the
eminent Carl Barks (1901--2000), the greatest cartoonist of the 20th
century. The pages are excellently constructed, filled with details from a
long list of identifiable Barks stories. Thanks, Rolf.

The author and artist of this abenteurerliches Buch is Jan Gulbransson (b.
1949), a grandson of the famous Norwegian artist Olaf Gulbransson
(1873--1958). Webbing around I learn that also Old Olaf dabbled in comics.
Respect!

Nils Lid Hjort



Yes, it was a legitimate publication from Ehapa (Germany's Disney Comics
publisher). It is a giant oversized book of nothing but poater-type drawings
with Barks-inspired scenes from The Ducks' lives, drawn by German Duck artist,
Jan Gulbransson (my work partner in Duck stories and also non-Disney
projects).  There is no text.  There were only a limited number issued.  It is
well sought after by German Disney fans.

Olaf Gulbransson was a fine artist, characaturist, and political cartoonist,
most notably as one of the principle contributors to "Simplicisimus" (German
magazine) from the beginning of the 1900s to World War
II.

Rob Klein



I was sorry to find that Jan's giant book was NOT listed in COA.  I hope it can be added soon.

There are no stories or codes.  The book is hardbound and has 12 pages (I think), with poster-style drawings of different scenes based on themes or scenarios from Barks stories, with only characters from the Duck stories (The Ducks, secondary characters and villains.  No Mickey Mouse-related characters.  The drawing is really great.

Robb_K wrote:

"Die Grosse Welt Von Entenhausen" by Jan Gulbransson.

Robb, that looks great. I just found one cover photo at Amazon: http://www.amazon.de/Die-große-Welt-von … 505098868/

Gorgeous covers.  Whenever I think of how many wonderful Duck publications us Americans (and only English readers) miss out on, it sort of depresses me.

Now I recall I have xeroxes of that book. These are indeed not always in the database (especially when they have no comics).

I think, it has to be on COA.

cacou wrote:

Now I recall I have xeroxes of that book. These are indeed not always in the database (especially when they have no comics).

I would really love to see them.

cacou wrote:

Robb_K wrote:

cacou wrote:

Now I recall I have xeroxes of that book. These are indeed not always in the database (especially when they have no comics).

But it is chock-ful of "comic book art".  So, ...... if a poster of Donald duck characters I drew for a Jyllandsk elementary school library gets indexed in COA, surely an EHAPA book full of Disney comic book-style drawings of Disney comic book characters should be indexed.  Not so?

There are lots of things that *could* be indexed, but only things containing Disney comic stories *should* be indexed. Indexing a panel from a story as an "incomplete" reprint of that story is slightly confusing, so in that case I only index the text/articles/studies/illustrations. I think my xeroxes are incomplete, so I wouldn't be able to index it...

Unfortunately, I don't have the book.  It is so big, I couldn't carry it with all my baggage on the train back to Holland, so I left my copy at Jan's studio. It was later given away to someone else.  In any case its pages are so big, I wouldn't know where to find a photocopy machine with a large enough screen to capture the full image.  it would have had to be photoed in 2 shots per page.

I see your point about indexing the characters.  The main characters are on each page.  But, there are some different secondary characters on each page, if I remember correctly.  The comic "story test" shouldn't apply, as covers are indexed.  Covers aren't stories.  Calendars are indexed.  This book is a book of posters or covers or comic book style drawings with comic book style scenes which tell a story, but just lack written narrative and dialogue.  I hope we can get the complete photocopies to you, so it can be indexed.