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Topic: Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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Sigvald
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-07 at 13:36:25
On this day, April 7th, it is 25 years ago since Don Rosa??s first story ? The Son of the Sun? was first released by Gladstone in US 219. Today I??ll have a toast to celebrate all the great joy that Don Rosa has provided through all these 25 years!
Ryan_Wynns
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-07 at 20:24:19
I was at five years old at the time, and had no idea of the existence of Uncle Scrooge comics. But several months later, as soon as DuckTales premiered on television, I was an avid viewer. Thus, the next year, when I was drawn to a copy of Uncle Scrooge Adventures #5 -- which so happened to feature Rosa's third book-length Scrooge adventure, "Last Sled to Dawson" -- in a local drug store and my mother was kind enough to buy it for me, though I didn't realize it at the time, it was a personal life-defining event!
Thank you for pointing this out, Sigvald -- I'm going to have honor this anniversary by re-reading my copy of Uncle Scrooge #219!
Thank you for pointing this out, Sigvald -- I'm going to have honor this anniversary by re-reading my copy of Uncle Scrooge #219!
Roger North
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-07 at 23:18:50
I started reading Disney Comics in 1987 which was coincidentally the same year that Don Rosa started writing and drawing stories for Disney Comics. I was nine years old at the time.
Here is a list of the stories that I have by Don Rosa
Fit To Be Pied in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #526 and 606
Oolated Luck in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #528
Last Sled to Dawson in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #5 and Uncle Scrooge #350
Rocket Reverie in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #5
The Crocodile Collector in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #8 and Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck #1
Fortune on the Rocks in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #9 and Walt Disney Treasures #1
Return to Plain Awful in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #12
His Majesty McDuck in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #14
On A Silver Platter in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #20
Give Unto Others in Mickey and Donald #17
The Pied Piper of Duckburg in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #21
Back in Time for a Dime in Duck Tales Magazine #8 and Uncle Scrooge #369
The Money Pit in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #1 and Donald and Scrooge #1
Return to Xanadu in Uncle Scrooge #s 261-262 and Donald and Scrooge #2
Treasure Under Glass in Uncle Scrooge #263 and Donald and Scrooge #3
The Master Landscapist in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #22 and Donald and Scrooge #3
On Stolen Time in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #24 and Donald and Scrooge #1
Incident at McDuck Tower in Uncle Scrooge #268
The Curse of Nostrildamus in Disney's Comics in 3-D #1
The Island at the Edge of Time in Uncle Scrooge #276
Super Snooper Strikes Again in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #34 and Walt Disney Giant #3
The Duck Who Fell to Earth in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #37
From Duckburg to Lilehammer in Donald Duck #283
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 1: The Last of the Clan McDuck in Uncle Scrooge #285 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 2: The Master of the Mississippi in Uncle Scrooge #286 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
Guardians of the Lost Library in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #27 and Uncle Scrooge #383
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 3: The Buckaroo of the Badlands in Uncle Scrooge 287 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Duck Who Never Was in Donald Duck #286
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 4: The Raider of the Copper Hill in Uncle Scrooge #288 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 5: The New Laird of Castle McDuck in Uncle Scrooge #289 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 6: The Terror of the Transvaal in Uncle Scrooge #290 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 7: The Dreamtime Duck of the Never Never in Uncle Scrooge #291 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8: The King of the Klondike in Uncle Scrooge #292 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 9: The Billionaire of Dismal Downs in Uncle Scrooge #293 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8C Hearts of the Yukon in Walt Disney Giant #1 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 10: The Invader of Fort Duckburg in Uncle Scrooge #294 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
Mythological Menagerie in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #600
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 11: The Empire Builder from Calisota in Uncle Scrooge #295 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 12: The Richest Duck in the World in Uncle Scrooge #296 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 0: Of Ducks Dimes and Destinies in Uncle Scrooge #297 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Universal Solvent in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #s 604-606
The Once and Future Duck in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #s 607-609
The Lost Charts of Columbus in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #44
Nobody's Business in Uncle Scrooge #300
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 6B: The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff in Uncle Scrooge #306 and in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Treasure of the Ten Avatars in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #51
A Little Something Special in The Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck #2 and Walt Disney Treasures #2
Escape From Forbidden Valley in Uncle Scrooge #347
The Magnificent Seven Minus Four Caballeros in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #s 663-665
The Black Knight Glorps Again in Uncle Scrooge #354
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 3B: The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8B: The Prisoner of White Agony Creek in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 10B: The Sharpie of the Culebra Cult in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
Dream of a Lifetime in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Treasury of Coroesus in Uncle Scrooge #372
That's the list of all the stories by Don Rosa that I have.
Here is a list of the stories that I have by Don Rosa
Fit To Be Pied in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #526 and 606
Oolated Luck in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #528
Last Sled to Dawson in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #5 and Uncle Scrooge #350
Rocket Reverie in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #5
The Crocodile Collector in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #8 and Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck #1
Fortune on the Rocks in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #9 and Walt Disney Treasures #1
Return to Plain Awful in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #12
His Majesty McDuck in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #14
On A Silver Platter in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #20
Give Unto Others in Mickey and Donald #17
The Pied Piper of Duckburg in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #21
Back in Time for a Dime in Duck Tales Magazine #8 and Uncle Scrooge #369
The Money Pit in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #1 and Donald and Scrooge #1
Return to Xanadu in Uncle Scrooge #s 261-262 and Donald and Scrooge #2
Treasure Under Glass in Uncle Scrooge #263 and Donald and Scrooge #3
The Master Landscapist in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #22 and Donald and Scrooge #3
On Stolen Time in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #24 and Donald and Scrooge #1
Incident at McDuck Tower in Uncle Scrooge #268
The Curse of Nostrildamus in Disney's Comics in 3-D #1
The Island at the Edge of Time in Uncle Scrooge #276
Super Snooper Strikes Again in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #34 and Walt Disney Giant #3
The Duck Who Fell to Earth in Donald Duck Adventures (Disney Series) #37
From Duckburg to Lilehammer in Donald Duck #283
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 1: The Last of the Clan McDuck in Uncle Scrooge #285 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 2: The Master of the Mississippi in Uncle Scrooge #286 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
Guardians of the Lost Library in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #27 and Uncle Scrooge #383
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 3: The Buckaroo of the Badlands in Uncle Scrooge 287 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Duck Who Never Was in Donald Duck #286
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 4: The Raider of the Copper Hill in Uncle Scrooge #288 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 5: The New Laird of Castle McDuck in Uncle Scrooge #289 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 6: The Terror of the Transvaal in Uncle Scrooge #290 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 7: The Dreamtime Duck of the Never Never in Uncle Scrooge #291 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8: The King of the Klondike in Uncle Scrooge #292 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 9: The Billionaire of Dismal Downs in Uncle Scrooge #293 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8C Hearts of the Yukon in Walt Disney Giant #1 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 10: The Invader of Fort Duckburg in Uncle Scrooge #294 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
Mythological Menagerie in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #600
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 11: The Empire Builder from Calisota in Uncle Scrooge #295 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 12: The Richest Duck in the World in Uncle Scrooge #296 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck TPB (Gemstone Edition)
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 0: Of Ducks Dimes and Destinies in Uncle Scrooge #297 and The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Universal Solvent in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #s 604-606
The Once and Future Duck in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #s 607-609
The Lost Charts of Columbus in Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone Series) #44
Nobody's Business in Uncle Scrooge #300
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 6B: The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff in Uncle Scrooge #306 and in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Treasure of the Ten Avatars in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #51
A Little Something Special in The Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck #2 and Walt Disney Treasures #2
Escape From Forbidden Valley in Uncle Scrooge #347
The Magnificent Seven Minus Four Caballeros in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #s 663-665
The Black Knight Glorps Again in Uncle Scrooge #354
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 3B: The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 8B: The Prisoner of White Agony Creek in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Part 10B: The Sharpie of the Culebra Cult in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
Dream of a Lifetime in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
The Treasury of Coroesus in Uncle Scrooge #372
That's the list of all the stories by Don Rosa that I have.
Germund
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-08 at 14:34:19
Quote from user: Roger NorthI started reading Disney Comics in 1987 which was coincidentally the same year that Don Rosa started writing and drawing stories for Disney Comics.
Wow, this feels like a long time ago. I had started reading Disney comics a few years earlier, but about this time I discovered Gladstone's new books and bought Son of the Sun off the stands, here in Sweden actually. Those were the days... new Mickey Mouse books stuffed with Gottfredson, plenty of classic Barks reprints and new Rosa stories ever so often. I was 12 in the spring of 1987 and still remember the joy of biking to the import book store to pick up new Gladstone issues... (sigh...)
Wow, this feels like a long time ago. I had started reading Disney comics a few years earlier, but about this time I discovered Gladstone's new books and bought Son of the Sun off the stands, here in Sweden actually. Those were the days... new Mickey Mouse books stuffed with Gottfredson, plenty of classic Barks reprints and new Rosa stories ever so often. I was 12 in the spring of 1987 and still remember the joy of biking to the import book store to pick up new Gladstone issues... (sigh...)
Roger North
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-08 at 17:40:32
That is cool that you have the story Son of the Sun. I don't have that story but I have read it online a few times and it was pretty good.
Alex-Duck
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-09 at 06:38:23
Horray! I started reading Disney comics in 2004, and that was Winnie the Pooh, but I started reading the danish Donald Duck Weekly around 2006, and that was when I was 6! I did not know about diffrent artists at that time, but I could still see differences in styles. And around 2009, I found out about Carl Barks, and later Don Rosa. And look at me now! Now I am a Donaldist!
Roger North
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-09 at 11:44:57
Good for you Alex.
GeoX
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-10 at 23:30:31
Oh, let's be long and self-indulgent for a moment. Why the heck not?
As I may at some point have mentioned, I first got into Disney comics when I was a little kid from my dad's old collection of Western comics from the fifties and early sixties. But, being dopey kids, my brothers and I did not treat these comics very well, and at some point--certainly exacerbated by frustration at this--I stopped being into them. I did buy a few Gladstone II issues in the mid-nineties, and that was where I first encountered Rosa, with a few installments of the L&T and "The Duck Who Never Was." I enjoyed these, and definitely felt that they were a cut above, but they didn't get me back into the hobby in any major way.
Fast forward to November of 2007, when I made a tentative move to reacquaint myself with the form (the "tentative" part didn't last very long). At this time, most of Gladstone I's old Comic Album Series remained in-print, surprisingly enough, so those were the easiest things to find and that's where I started. I read a lot of Barks stuff that way, and then I got to the Flintheart Glomgold volume. It included all three Barks stories plus "Son of the Sun." I wasn't quite sure what to expect, after all this Barks. And when I read it?¦I found myself a bit on the underwhelmed side. I'm not quite if this was for any reason other than that I found the obsessively detailed texturing that you find in the earliest Rosa stories visually exhausting. It might also be that it felt like there seemed to be something overly self-conscious about it? Odd.
But at any rate, then I moved on to the Don Rosa album. It starts with "Cash Flow," about which I felt about the same as I did about "Son of the Sun." Then came "Mythological Menagerie," which was good but not necessarily a game-changer. But then there was "Last Sled to Dawson," and HOLY SHIT, what is this?!?
At that point, I was sold (and I should note that I do appreciate both "Son of the Sun" and "Cash Flow" a lot more these days). For a while, I was sort of a frothing-at-the-mouth fanboy; nowadays I have a more balanced view: sure, when he was on, he could be really transcendently good, but when not?¦the less said the better.
Still, a man of prodigious talent with (in spite of his intense Barks admiration) a vision all his own, whose impact cannot be overstated. I curse the fact that his retirement coincided so well with my reawakened interest, denying me the pleasure of ever reading a brand-new Rosa story.
As I may at some point have mentioned, I first got into Disney comics when I was a little kid from my dad's old collection of Western comics from the fifties and early sixties. But, being dopey kids, my brothers and I did not treat these comics very well, and at some point--certainly exacerbated by frustration at this--I stopped being into them. I did buy a few Gladstone II issues in the mid-nineties, and that was where I first encountered Rosa, with a few installments of the L&T and "The Duck Who Never Was." I enjoyed these, and definitely felt that they were a cut above, but they didn't get me back into the hobby in any major way.
Fast forward to November of 2007, when I made a tentative move to reacquaint myself with the form (the "tentative" part didn't last very long). At this time, most of Gladstone I's old Comic Album Series remained in-print, surprisingly enough, so those were the easiest things to find and that's where I started. I read a lot of Barks stuff that way, and then I got to the Flintheart Glomgold volume. It included all three Barks stories plus "Son of the Sun." I wasn't quite sure what to expect, after all this Barks. And when I read it?¦I found myself a bit on the underwhelmed side. I'm not quite if this was for any reason other than that I found the obsessively detailed texturing that you find in the earliest Rosa stories visually exhausting. It might also be that it felt like there seemed to be something overly self-conscious about it? Odd.
But at any rate, then I moved on to the Don Rosa album. It starts with "Cash Flow," about which I felt about the same as I did about "Son of the Sun." Then came "Mythological Menagerie," which was good but not necessarily a game-changer. But then there was "Last Sled to Dawson," and HOLY SHIT, what is this?!?
At that point, I was sold (and I should note that I do appreciate both "Son of the Sun" and "Cash Flow" a lot more these days). For a while, I was sort of a frothing-at-the-mouth fanboy; nowadays I have a more balanced view: sure, when he was on, he could be really transcendently good, but when not?¦the less said the better.
Still, a man of prodigious talent with (in spite of his intense Barks admiration) a vision all his own, whose impact cannot be overstated. I curse the fact that his retirement coincided so well with my reawakened interest, denying me the pleasure of ever reading a brand-new Rosa story.
Kimba_1962
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-14 at 23:06:38
I remember that the reaction to "Son of the Sun", while extremely positive, was not universally so. One letter writer to Gladstone scored the "nervous and scuzzy looking" drawing that bore "too close" of a resemblance to the work of Robert Crumb. And, in truth, Rosa's style WAS still rather rough around the edges, looking back on it now. But I had no doubt at the time that I wanted to see much more of Rosa's work.
1987... the year of Rosa's debut AND DUCKTALES, plus Gladstone's first full calendar year of operation... not a bad time to be an American Duck fan! I definitely "hopped on the bandwagon" of Duck fandom at a propitious time.
1987... the year of Rosa's debut AND DUCKTALES, plus Gladstone's first full calendar year of operation... not a bad time to be an American Duck fan! I definitely "hopped on the bandwagon" of Duck fandom at a propitious time.
Robb_K
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
Message 10 -
2012-04-14 at 23:35:47
To my taste, the BEST of Rosa's work is still rough and stiff, and still looks very like that of Robert Crumb.
Argonaut
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
Message 11 -
2012-04-15 at 01:29:17
Thank you Don, for all the great years of rough, stiff Crumb-y ducks!
Tightwad
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
Message 12 -
2012-04-15 at 12:32:33
Indeed, Don.
Thank you for 1/4th of a century with some of the best comic book adventures out there. And, for what is arguably, the best series of Robert Crumb-y duck stories. I am referring to Life and Times of $crooge, of course.
Thank you for 1/4th of a century with some of the best comic book adventures out there. And, for what is arguably, the best series of Robert Crumb-y duck stories. I am referring to Life and Times of $crooge, of course.
Debbie
Happy 25th anniversary, Don Rosa!
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2012-04-16 at 19:11:28
I liked Don Rosa's earliest work for Gladstone series 1. Last Sled To Dawson was the first real stand-out Rosa story in my opinion. Rosa's work just got to be too heavy, for lack of a better word. He'd pack in so much detail in both art and story, whether historical fact or Barks references that sometimes I felt that reading these stories was a bit of a chore. Even the most tightly plotted Barks, Gottfredson and Scarpa stories had a light touch that makes the pages seem to fly past and not make the reader feel bogged down in information. With Rosa's stories, he was trying to meld historical fact in with cartoon fantasy, and that doesn't always work as well as he'd hoped. I wasn't crazy about Life of Scrooge when I first read it, and over the years I've come to appreciate it. The Life of Scrooge Companion seems to be a bit unnecessary, IMHO, so I've never warmed to those B and C chapters.
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