Herning Folkeblad (Herning Local-paper) 29th november 1997 (Also seen in other, bigger newspapers)
Second scene: Uncle $crooge gives a hang about morals in his hunt for diamonds. As white imperialist he burns down a black afracin village and hunts the inhabitants away.
Third scene: Uncle $crooge returns to his ancestral Scotland as a rich duck. His mother died while he was gone, and in the end the father also dies while Scrooge drives away. You're tempted to burst: I don't believe it!
This is certainly not everyday occurrence for readers of the (danish) weekly Anders And & Co. [The story *was* published there in 1992 to 1994, but he seems to "forget" that:-)]
But the scenes are taken directly from the probably most beautiful Duckburg-publication in danish of the year: $crooge McDuck - This is Your life [The title was reversed inside the book and the american title is Life and Times og $crooge McDuck] A beautifully bound book with 12 stories that combined tell everything about Uncle $crooge's life until the day where he turns up as a supporting character in the classic Barks-story "Christmas on Bear Mountain" in 1947
He has recently been in Denmark to meet his many fans at the Bookfare - and to tell the press about the work.
- I grew up with Carl Barks' wonderful stories about Duckburg. The house was already filled with comics when they brought me home from the hospital, explains Don Rosa who is nice bespectacled [formal way to say that he wears glasses!] gentleman with blue blazerjacket and Donald Duck-motives on the tie.
- My Uncle $crooge stories are exciting adventures from the real world. You can meet people who really lived and experience events that really happened. But I don't see myself as an artist. I'm first and foremost a storyteller - one, who tells stories, reveals Don Rosa who partted the Disney-readers in two camps.
Many don't like that Rosa has tried to made a family tree of the Duckburg-families - and that he to the smallest detail has mapped $crooge's and the other Ducks' past.
The other camp respects Don Rosa as the most personal of all the artists who have had to lift the inhertiance after Barks. His highly detailed drawing style and his stories are filled with with historical facts, real events and dramatic action.
-My Uncle $crooge stories are not made with reference to the general public, but more with appeal to the Carl Barks-knowers and the comic-freaks. The stories are based on the facts that Barks revealed in his classic stories, Don Rosa tells.
He himself has no unequivocal explanation as to why he apparantly gets such a long lead from Egmont and Disney on the contents of his stories. Time and time again Don Rosa breaks with the traditonal Disney-values.
- I never get any instructions as to what i can and can not do. I think they see me as an experiment! they don't say that aloud but I have a hard time thinking of other explanations. I know nothing about drawing Disney Don Rosa admits.
The word means duck in american [!! - It said "and" there, and it's the same], but is actually a dedication: Dedicated to Uncle Carl from Keno. A tribute to the idol Carl Barks from the humble pupil.
-My stories are drawn in a style that falls long apart from the traditonal Dinsey-line. Normally the stories are done for a young public. But I can only draw in one way, my own! My drawings are strange and it is possibly the older readers who value my hidden references to old movies, comics, books and world history, Don Rosa thinks.
- I don't worry about political correctness. My stories are like I want them to be. And Egmont buys it all, maybe because political correctness is not such a great problem in Europe as it is in the states.
Don Rosa still lives in his native town Louisville, Kentucky.
He's a big collector of comics and was soon known in american fandom, among other things for a regular column in the fanzine "Amazing Heroes".
But Rose chose to get a good civil eduction as cvil engeneer and employment in construction. But in his free time he drew stories for underground-magazines, among other things Superhero-parodies.
I 1986 Don Rosa contacted the american Disney-publisher [Gladstone] and explained that he was born to write and stories about Uncle $crooge. Attached was Don Rosas first long duck-adventure "The Son of The Sun". Ever since Don Rosa has been able to call himself a duckdrawer.
- For me it all started as a fan project. I never imagined that I would become a professional comic drawer. It was a hobby, but by accident it became my work, and now I'm travelling around Europe signing my Books, Don Rosa laughs. He's almost bubbling of joy to talk about his comics and underlines that he's very proud of the receipt his comics get in the whole world. Actually there's only one thing that can make Don Rosa sad, almost depressed.
That is when you ask anout his relationship with the idol Barks. I have no personal relationship to Barks. It has been prevented for me to have that. I have heard that he doesn't like my stories, but I only have that from others. I tried to meet with him, but he didn't wish to see me. Don't ask me what I've done. Bit I try to not let it worry me, Don Rosa says sadly. [this condition changed and I have another article about that]
With the article is one photo and a part of the special cover for the story
On the photo the prod Don in a Donald-sweatshirt shows us his Eisner award and the 12 Uncle $crooge issues lie on the table. A text says: Drawer and Writer Don Rosa prsents the distinguished Eisner Award that he won in the category "Best continued story" - thanks to exactly Lo$. The part of the book cover shows Uncle $crooge and some photos from his scrapbook in the background.
