Don Rosa - Uusi Ankkamestari (the Finnish part of the site) has today its first birthday! In one year the site's mainpage has had 6509 visitors, the Finnish site 4234 and the English site (which is a bit over month younger) 3745 visitors. During one day the mainpage has about 40 visitors and a bit over thousand in a month. After the site moved to Perunamaa the number of visitors went immediately up.
To celebrate the birthday I've made one new page: Thanks-page, where I've put the names of everyone who have helped me with the site. Hope I didn't forget anyone... And the Gallery has a new picture: Scrooge's Family Portrait, that apparently came to the orderers of the Finnish The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck -book as a compensation for the book's delay. Thanks to Petri Kanninen for the scan.

And here you can find pictures from the Torino Comics -convention:
www.fumetti.org/foto/TorinoComics2002
www.fumetti.org/foto/TorinoComics2002b
www.fumetti.org/foto/TorinoComics2002c
www.fumetti.org/foto/TorinoComics2002d

Articles and interviews -page (note the changed name) has now a new scanned article, Mevi 5/99's (Stockmann's staff magazine) article about the Quest for Kalevala -book and Rosa's visit in Finland. Also the magazine's cover has a Rosa-subject and it can be found from the Covers -page. Here are the direct links: article's pages 1 and 2 and the cover. Thanks to Kenneth Levanen, who scanned them.

Advert: About this, too, you would've got a message to your e-mail, if you would've joined the Newsletter (or you did got if you have joined). Even in the Newsletter I sent to tell about these updates had info about new things that I didn't mention in the News, so those who haven't joined are missing them (heh, heh). Check out Newsletter here and stay updated!

I've finally got finished updating and moving the site, that took way too long (surprising FTP-problems dealyed the move even more). So the new address is www.perunamaa.net/donrosa, but the old shortcut go.to/donrosa still works. You can also reach the site via Perunamaa's mainpage. Thanks to Antti Peltola, who told me about Perunamaa.
So, what have I changed in the site? Well, here's a list of the biggest changes:
- New backgrounds, in any case a bit improved appearance
- Newsletter
- Banners
- Sitemap
- 3 new covers and 6 new other pictures in Gallery
- Stories -section improved, also one new story, The Lost Charts of Columbus
- Articles -section renewed, also two new articles
- Lots of new info in Don's long introduction
- News -section improved
The rest of the renewals are a bit smaller and you can find out them yourself. Of course I've also checked and updated every page. If something doesn't work etc, please let me know. Now, enjoy the site!

So, I'm back from Lapland, and at home I had waiting for me a 68-page celebration issue of Aku Ankka. Among other great stories, it had Don Rosa's The Pied Piper of Duckburg. This was the first publication of that story in Finland.

As I before mentioned, I'm moving the site to a new host, because I've spent all of the space given by Angelfire. Because of this I can't put the pictures of Aku Ankan Juhlakalenteri's October and November online. But I think I can get the site moved by the end of the year, although I'm not sure.

So, Don's Finland's tuor is finally about to start tomorrow. I myself can't report about it any more, because I'm going for a week to Lapland on Saturday (what a bad luck that my trip is in the same week with Don's visit!). BTW, I just noticed that I hadn't remember to say, that there are originals of Quest for Kalevala shown in Cosmic Comic Cafessa on 19.11 - 3.12. Rosa is visiting in CCC on Monday 3.12.

Again there's a new Rosa-story online:
En på græskarlampen which is Fit to Be Pied (which is also in the new book) in Danish.

I won't put next month's or Novemeber's picture to the Aku Ankan Juhlakalenteri 2001. This because I've spent all of the 50 Mb's of web space that Angelfire gives and the picture doesn't have room enough anymore. Because of this, I'm already for a while being updating and renewing the site to move it to a bigger server. The work is almost finished now but it's still going to take a while, maybe even a quite long time. By the way, if someone knows a good server that gives unlimited web space I'd be very grateful for the info.

To another subject: As DUCKhunt in it's site announces the Don Rosa in Scandinavia -site maintainded by Sigvald Groesfjeld was lost during a server update. Because there weren't any backups of the site, it's now completely lost. So, if anyone has by any chance have saved the site to his harddisk, Sigvald would certainly be grateful if you'd let him know by e-mailing him to sigvald4@yahoo.no. This also affects to my site since especially the Stories -section has a lot of links to Sigvald's site. This being those links are now "dead".

Helsinki Media has published a new book for the honor of Aku Ankka -comic book's 50th anniversary. As written above, the name of the book is Maailman hauskin kuvasarjalehti (The world's funniest comic book). In addition to articles there's also one comic story from each decade and there is also Don Rosa's An Eye for Detail.

Also The Crown of the Crusader Kings -page has been updated. Among others I've added Links -subtitle and a picture of the book's cover! I'll add there new information whenever I get it.

To make up that he couldn't go to the Book Fair in Sweden Don is going to Amadora International Comics Festival in Portugal, near Lisbon. As he told, this won't of course completely cover for the Swedish Fair, but it's the best he can do. Don is in Portugal on 26. - 29.10 and leaves on the 30th day. In the festival he is on the weekend or 26. - 28. and on Monday or the 29th day he's just is going to sightsee, since there are no flights to his home until the next day. The Festival starts on 19.10 and ends on 4.11.

As you all already probably noticed there's also info about Rosa's new story given below, but, as it says, nothing is sure yet.

In Göteborg, Sweden there will be a rather big book fair and Don Rosa will aslo be there. The fair is on the weekend at 14-16 September. Don will sing books ect. and fans will have a chance to talk with him. Apparently you can also buy from there his two non-Disney -books. The fairs homesite can be found here and the fair itself from here:

Bok & Bibliotek
Svenska Mässan
Mässans Gata 6
412 94 Göteborg

The page of the new Rosa-book has been updated and there is new info about the original drawings in the special edition.

As I few days ago annouced, there will be a leatherbound, 100-volume edition of the new Rosa-book that will be published in the end of the year. Now I have some new information about it: The volumes 1-20 will include a color drawing by Don, and his autograph, the price of one volume is 1900 FIM (about 290 $). And volumes 21-100 contain a black and white drawing by Don, and his autograph, with the price of 1000 FIM (about 150 $). In a few days I will also make an own page to the book, which link can then be found from the frontpage. This, so that the infromation about it can be easily found even after the news about it go to the Archive.

A new story has been added to the Gallery's stories -section, The Black Knight. As before, the story is in English, but this time also black and white. Apparently it's the editorial version of Donald Duck -comic book or something like that. You can find it here. Thanks for sending the scans to Jean-Luc Bovet.
I've also updated the New stories by Don Rosa -section given below. Besides the story mentioned there he's also working on the illustration to the leatherbound 100-volume limited edition version of the upcoming Rosa -book (read the New Rosa-book -news) and a poster-version of the Money Bin blueprints that were originally drawn for The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin -story. The versio is being made so that Don would have other posters that just the Duck Family Tree to sing in book fairs and such.

The newest Aku Ankka (33/01) has as an appendix a class schedule illustrated by Don Rosa, an Akkari-lukkari. The schedule itself is also a short story of a banknote's journey in Duckburg. The last time a class schedule drawn by Rosa was published in Aku Ankka was two years ago in number 33/99.
Here are the links for the pictures: cover and schedule. And number 33/99: cover and schedule.

For a quite long time now, I've known, that a new Don Rosa book is going to be published in Finland before the end of this year, but now Don himself has told more about it on DCML:
The stories are:
- The Crown of the Crusader Kings
- Fit to be Pied
- The Crocodile Collector
- Metaphorically Spanking
- Return to Plain Awful
- His Majesty, McDuck
- On a Silver Platter
- The Treasure of Croesus
From eight stories half of them haven't been published in Finland before this. As before, Don is also going to draw the cover and to write forewords to the stories. The book will be published in November and Don is touring in the bookstores of four different cities during the time between 29.11. and 5.12. He is also attenting in the 50th anniversary celebration of Aku Ankka 5.12. and has promised to wear tuxedo in the first time of his life!

This week's Aku Ankka's cover is (althought with a different coloring) The Quest for Kalevala -cover, that Don originally draw for German Don Rosa -album series' issue 25 and on the other side of the cover is a Pin-Up that was first published in Picsou Magazine's number 344. The issue also inludes an article about where has The Quest for Kalevala been published so far. And all this is of course because the issue contains The Quest for Kalevala -story's part II/III. In the honor of that I have now added to my site that Articles-section I told about while ago. Next week's Aku Ankka will publish the last part of the story, but I'm not going to tell about it here unless it also includes something extra.

My site (and I myself) is now officially a member of DUCKhunt. In result to this the non-Disney comics -section's pages are now also a part of DUCKhunt and to mark that I have put to the bottom of them a DUCKhunt logo. So now you can access my site also from DUCKhunt. Other than that nothing changes in my site.

I have both, added June's and introduction's pictures to Aku Ankan Juhlakalenteri 2001 -section and scanned all the present pictures again in bigger size. By time I'm going to updates other slightly failed pictures, too.
As you can see I have also reorganized this page a little bit, so, that one month's news are shown at a time and the others, old ones, can be found from Archive (look down). Later, when there's more new stories, I'll do the same with them.
By the way, there is something extra good coming to my site on next Friday...

I'm not sure, but it may be that the feedback from hasn't worked at all (or at least I haven't got any messages throw it), but it should work now. However, if you example send me a question, even several times, and you don't get any kind of response, you can also send your message straight to my e-mail address: arttu4@hotmail.com
I apology the possible troubles that this problem may have caused.

Now I've also annouced to Disney-mailing lists and search engines about the site! I'ts open to everyone now!

26.4.2001 Finished!

Aku Ankka announced in it's this week's number (17/01) about the ten part series made to celebrate Carl Barks' 100th birthday by the Egmont-company's comic authors. In it Egmont's best drawers and writers have choosed a character which Barks has invented and made a story about it, where she/he interprets the character with her/his own style. The series will be published during the year and in Aku Akka the first story is Ferioli's Gladstone Gander -story which will be published in the same number. If the list by Aku Ankka is correct, the next story should be Don's.

And here is the list:
Ferioli: Gladstone Gander
Don Rosa: Beagle Boys and Money Bin
William Van Horn: Gyro Gearloose
Kari Korhonen: Junior Woodchucks
Romano Scarpa: Uncle Scrooge
Pat and Carol McGreal and Esteban: April, May and June
John Lusting and Vicar: Flintheart Glomgold
Pat and Carol McGreal and Marco Rota: Gyro's Helper
Daan Jippes: Neighbor Jones
Geoffrey Blum ja Daniel Branca: Magica de Spell

In the city of Helsinki's artmuseum, Tennnispalatsi, there is from 04/12/2001 to 07/15/2001 an Carl Barks-exhibition. On display is samples of the Carl Barks-collector Marko Leppänen's private collection. There is also a discussion occasion about Barks on 16th of May at 7 pm.
-Aku Ankka 15/01

I did now get the scanner as a christmas present! Now I can really start doing the pages!