Don Rosa is back! Now I finally can ask him some questions I've wanted to ask for months!
These following questions have all been asked before, but with 235 screens of text, I guess people can't read through all that stuff.
I have. Had plenty of time while you were away. Though I have only read the questions to you, and the answers from you, not the 100 pages that went before that.
>>>>>>Then I wanna ask you if you have ever thought to set your duck stories in the present time and not in the fifties
Nope. Never wanted to do that. $crooge couldn't still be alive in 2011. If he was, he would not be the $crooge I love -- his entire background history would be different. I don't regard him as an immortal fairy-tale creature. I see him as a real man.
Sherlock Holmes stories must be set in Victorian times. Indiana Jones adventures must be set in the 1930's. For me, $crooge McDuck stories must be set in the 1950's. Other writers feel otherwise, and that's okay for them.
Interesting, I've always seen it as the Ducks living in the present. Not like "they've always lived in 2011" but you've got to see it as "the comic is from 1939, so the Ducks momentarily live in 1939" or "the comic is from 1978, so they now live in 1978". I could say a whole lot more about continuity, but I have my theory and you have yours.
Here come the questions!
What do you think about Fantagraphics' recent "Floyd Gottfredson Library"? Will it move you to reading more Mouse stories?
What do you think about their upcoming "Carl Barks Library"?
And here's a real nitpicker. When I read "W.H.A.D.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G
.O.N." (appropiately titled "W.H.A.D.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.T.I.T.L
.E." in Dutch), Scrooge calls Della his granddaughter! See this page, third row, second panel:
http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=9&loc=D97052&s=dateWas that a fault of the letterer, or did your script say so?
Will you ever visit a comic con in The Netherlands? (I'm from the Netherlands,
Io non sono italiano as Google Translate says)