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Article about Don Rosa's stories and his story about Croesus from danish weekly nr. 3 from 1995 (Issue 4 printed the story)

[First text-paragraph]
Not many are so lucky to be able to live of their hobby. Keno Don Rosa is one of them. He has made the dream of his childhood into his job. Don Rosa is born on the 29th june 1951 in the state of Kentucky, USA and was fead [flasket op] with his older sister's duck comics. It was especially the stories by "the good artist" who caught him. "The good artist" was the only name Carl Barks was known by untill the end of the 1960'es. Don Rosa himself says that he's a barks-fan who has had his biggest wish fullfilled, to draw Donald, $crooge and all the others, who live in Duckburg. That he can also live from it, stands as a miracle for him.

[third paragraph]
Don Rosa is one of the few who both writes and draws the stories himself. Carl Barks did so too. That Don Rosa deeply admires his old master is easy to tell from the stories. His first story "The Son of the Sun" opens with a scene from the Museum of Duckburg, where Unca $crooge has an exhibition with things which are connected to adventures (by Barks) that he's been on with Donald and the kids.

On this picture is shown things from not less than 3 Barks-stories: "The Crown of Ghengis Khan", "The golden Fleece" and "Atlantis"
(It said also  "Mines of King Solomo" and "Fabolous filosopher's stone" But they aren't really there...)

[second text-paragraph]
Don Rosa sees himself as a bad artist. He's self-learned and
feels that he has still much to learn. As a reader of his stories
you can't doubt that he's getting better and better all the time,
but it is as a storyteller, that Don Rosa is so fantastic. The
story-telling-method is the good old-fashioned one and the
drawings aren't put higher than the fascinating themes of the
story itself.
Don Rosa's stories takes place in the 50'es like Barks's stories
do. That's why some things can seem old-fashioned. In the
Duckburg that he describes the electronical time hasn't really
begun yet, which is among other places seen in the story
"Last Sled to Dawson" (called back to the past in danish)
where Unca $crooge's yearbooks are made in hand.
It is a story itself to explore Don Rosa's richly detailed stories.
[Under this is a panel from last Sled to Dawson]

[4th text-paragraph]
Like Barks, Don Rosa goes thoroughly about it when he writes a story. Encyclopedia are studied and like Barks he also turns to the National Geographic for documentation. Historic and scientific facts are a natural part of Don Rosa's stories. When seldomly a mistake is seen, it's usually caused by inaccuarassy or missing knowledge of the people who take over after the stories are finished from the hand of Don Rosa.
As stated, Don Rosas first story "The Son of the Sun" starts at
Unca $crooge's Museum Excibition. A funny thing about this exhibition is that one of the effects hadn't been found when the story was published for the first time in 1987 in the US. The case concerns the Treasure of King Croesus. Croeus is the King who is considered to be the richest man of all time. . Don Rosa thinks it was Croesus who invented the use of coins, and hinted in an interview some years ago, that this would be a good plot for a story. Now the story is finished and next week you can read what happened when Uncle $crooge tried to find the Treasure of King Croesus.

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