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I've posted scans of a rare two-page Rosa story on my site. The story was written by Nils Lid Hjort and drawn by Don Rosa for a Dutch speedskating magazine back in 1998:
http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw/blog/2009/03/rare-don-rosa-speedskating-story/
The story features Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander competing in a speedskating race. The winner gets to escort chairlady Daisy to the banquet.

That was really weird indeed! I mean, "Burg of Ducks"? I would rather leave the city name out altogether than call it something that lame! And yes, you also gotta love the obscured Gyro (who's "seen" in three panels, by the way, not two).

Quote from user: Charlie BrownA German website says:

"This is no official Disney story. So no Disney characters could be used. Therefore the characters have no names and you never see the full body (the rest of the body could be different to the Disney characters ;)). It's just a story with celebrity lookalikes or doubles."
Yup

Our Uncle
That Lucky cousin of mine
The chairlady

It's still nice to see
What ashame that Don Rosa has such bad eyes... If not, he would keep on drawing I think :(

Quote from user: Roger NorthDon Rosa wrote that story? Too Bad it's not official material.
No, Nils Lid Hjort wrote the story.

I assume not mentioning Donald (nor any other character) has practical advantages. Maybe that way you can not be liable for trademark infringement? I think Disney is able to sue people for using "Mickey Mouse" or "Donald Duck" in a printed publication (or advertising something with these names).
Regarding the (c) aspect, I'm not sure what exact charges would Disney request if they were to sue (and I hope they don't). Maybe this comic could be considered a "derivative work" and hence be infringing on Disney's rights.

Quote from user: arthurQuote from user: Roger NorthDon Rosa wrote that story? Too Bad it's not official material.
No, Nils Lid Hjort wrote the story.
Maybe so but it looks like Don Rosa drew the story.

I need briefly to comment further on this. As can be seen above, Lars Jensen first provided the for me utterly surprising statement
"Nils Lid Hjort has asked not to be credited as co-writer of that story."
causing me to ask
[...] which renders me curious: from where did you get that information?
Let me make it very clear that I have never "asked not to be credited as co-writer of that story" or uttered statements that could with any reasonable stretch of imagination be interpreted in such a direction. On the contrary, I am rather proud of this achievement and to have it listed on my CV. I have also humoured myself and some of my readers by referencing "Rosa, D. and Hjort, N.L. (1998)" in a couple of my scientific publications (where I've been using data from speedskating competitions to change the Olympic Games and to illustrate mathematical statistics methods I've been developing). The achievement in question is perhaps small on the world scale but comfortably big as measured by my personal and occasionally idiosyncratic parameters (to contra-paraphrase Mr Armstrong) -- as I have always admired said D. Rosa, as an artist and as a friend.
Of course I am rather impressed by Lars Jensen's ability to produce from his memory a single line from something I posted on the DCML in October 2005, but, again, if I somehow would have felt a iota of a morsel of embarrassment over that story I would simply not have mentioned it. Those sufficiently interested may also browse through the DCML archive of March 2004 [http://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/2004-March.txt] and read my answer dated 22 March to a question about the story raised by Hans Kiesl 16 March.
So in this particular case, Lars Jensen, the answer does not appear to be the customary "no".

That's nice. Now we can rest assure that everybody is satisfied.

Nils made an excellent story and Don made these drawings in a fairly Disney-like mode, though hiding obvious persons as "hints" for us commons...
Great job !

:)

...and Lars is Honorable...