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And in case someone wonders: Rob's maps are really impressive.

Quote from user: Charlie BrownQuote from user: Lars JensenRob's maps are really impressive.
I really would like to see them. I hope Rob finds a publisher soon!
I showed them to both Egmont and Ehapa in 1989 and 1993, and both thought they looked like real maps of real cities and states, and that's why they turned them down. They didn't think that the young readers would care about them (even with drawings of The Ducks outside the map area, pointing to places on the map that are key interest points (e.g. Donald's various houses, Daisy's house, Gladstone's house, Gyro's shop, Scrooge's Money Bin, The McDuck Building, Duckburg University, Town Square, Duckburg City Park, Wildwood Canyon, Daisy's Sister's house, The Duckburg River, The Tulebug River, etc., etc.).

But, I think my maps gave Egmont the idea to publish a "map" of Duckburg, in the early 1990s that was really a view of the city from above. It was drawn by Spanish studio artists, and had a Spanish-style Bull Ring instead of football stadium, and the buildings looked like the Spanish-style stucco with Spanish tile roofs. It looked like a mediterranean town rather than an American (or northern European(for that matter) middle-sized city.

I hope Sanoma Uitgevers (Dutch Disney) will publish the maps as double sized fold out posters, using my same "realistic style maps", with drawings all around the border as the characters pointing to the landmarks, also with drawings of those landmarks. I hope that Mau Heymans will be the one to make the drawings. If it gets published by them, and there is a favourable reaction to it, perhaps Egmont and some of the other publishers will publish it, too.

That map looks to have been produced at Disney Italia. It looks a bit like Cavazzano's style.

Inducks attributes the art for the map above to Joe Pearson and Larry Mayer and gives it a K-code.
I think this art indeed looks more like something from the Studio Program or its successor in the 90s (the K-coded production).

There is another interesting map of Duckburg published in 1997 as a sticker poster. It was given as a gift in at least the Norwegian and Danish weeklies "Donald Duck & Co" and "Anders And & Co". I´ve read about it in "Calisota Online":
http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/maps/egmont2.html

The link for seeing the map doesn´t work, but I´ve found some pieces of the poster in the web, and i´ve joined them. This is the result:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/580/mapa2fb7.jpg

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/580/mapa2fb7.th.jpghttp://img180.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif

You can see the landmarks on the link above. As Gilles R. Maurice said, the map includes Barksian references and typically Egmont countries stories references. I like it a lot!

From Gilles Maurice's website Calisota Online:

Quote from user: Gilles MauriceIn "Fast Away Castaway" (W US 35-04), we can also see the gulf of lower Cauliflowernia. It's impossible to say whether Cauliflowernia is the same than Calisota, than California, or is another new state...
Source: http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/maps/barks.html

European readers may not realize that this Gulf of Lower Cauliflowernia is probably not a part of the U.S.A.

In reality, Lower California is not a lower part of the U.S. state of California, but the peninsula that comprises the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. The Gulf of California is the body of water between this peninsula and the Mexican mainland, also known as the Gulf of Cortez. This is obviously the area that Carl Barks had in mind.

The name of Lower Cauliflowernia may suggest the existence of a corresponding U.S. state of Cauliflowernia, but technically speaking, such a state is never mentioned by Barks. Lower Cauliflowernia is simply the Barksian equivalent of the Baja California peninsula.

Compare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_California

Quote from user: Robb_KI assume that you meant to write: "the peninsula that comprises the Mexican states of Baja California [DEL NORTE] and Baja California [DEL] Sur."
I went with the names as they appear on Wikipedia. Apparently, these are the official state names.

Quote from user: Robb_KThe GULF of California refers to The Sea of Cortez.
I assume you meant to write: "The Gulf of California refers to the SEA of Cortez." That's the part I got wrong.

Note that in "The Seven Cities of Cibola" (20.3) Barks mentioned Lower California by its proper name.

P.S. In a general sense, I don't think it's necessary to repeat the previous post in full if one wants to comment on it.