{"product_id":"0726fb0939-us","title":"CARL BARKS PENCILS AND STORYBOARDS HC KING SCROOGE THE FIRST AND OTHER STORIES THE FANTAGRAPHICS STUDIO EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Pre-Order has an estimated release date of \u003cspan style=\"color: #ae1f23;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e December 02, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e For an updated release schedule, please reference \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lunardistribution.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.lunardistribution.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eNote:  Release dates may change. \u003cspan style=\"color: #ae1f23;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover art on Pre-Order is not final \u0026amp; is subject to change. Thank you.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny items listed as Pre-Order and listed after FOC current date does not qualify as Back Issue, please reach out to confirm availability. Thank you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpportunist\u003c\/b\u003e:  Buying a Ratio Variant at Cover Price will require you to also buy that many copies of that Ratio Variant at the regular price, or lose half your money for Refund Fees.  Thank You\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote: No Free Shipping\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Barks: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition collects Barks’ preliminary pencil pages —or storyboards—of comics he wrote after he retired from penciling and inking, serving as a perfectly legible graphic storytelling map the finishing artist could follow. These are fully written and designed stories —which include Barks’ hand lettering— and can be read as easily as the rendered final versions. The advantage to these original art renditions is that the reader can not only appreciate but positively savor Barks’ gorgeous, nuanced penciling. These pages display the architecture beneath Barks’ final inked pages, revealing how fluid, vital, and effortless his finished panel-to-panel storytelling was, and how the subtlety of his character’s facial expressions were baked into the pencil work. Writing the story and breaking down the page graphically is the cartoonist’s first step to creating a comic, and here is an opportunity to see one of the 20th century’s greatest cartoonists thinking as drawing. This book includes “King Scrooge the First,” the last Uncle Scrooge story Barks wrote and one of his best, as well as “Pawns of the Loup Garou” and many others. The pages are reproduced from high resolution color scans and printed at the actual size they were drawn. The fidelity to the original art is so uncannily realized that a page framed under glass would be indistinguishable from the original. Every page convincingly conveys the quality and expressivity of Barks’ pencil linework. Also included are several cover sketches and finished pencil drawings that were never published, and covers that were bought, finished, and submitted but never published. An introduction by Barks expert and editor Kim Weston provides background information and aesthetic commentary on the stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten by:  \u003c\/b\u003eJames Tynion IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist by:  \u003c\/b\u003eCarl Barks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCover Artist by:  \u003c\/b\u003e Letizia Cadonici\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Approx. Release December 02 2026","offer_id":67589342331132,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/1258\/9720\/files\/0726FB0939.jpg?v=1790451275","url":"https:\/\/thundercomicscanada.com\/products\/0726fb0939-us","provider":"Thunder Comics Canada","version":"1.0","type":"link"}