Rosa Remarks: a Don Rosa Podcast

[queuemark]

Hi folks. The Barks Remarks podcast is still going strong and about a month ago we launched a spin-off podcast, "Rosa Remarks," covering (obviously) the stories of Don Rosa! This project is similar in structure to the Barks Remarks podcast, with a few key differences. For one, EVERY Rosa (drawn & written) story that is 10 pages and up will receive a full episode, unlike the Barks podcast, which covers every adventure story but only select ten-pagers from among the scores of gag stories Barks released.

We've lined up some great guests for the series and this series really benefits from the experience of putting out all those dozens of Barks Remarks episodes, so we get to really hit the ground running. 

Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts!

The podcast is most active on Facebook, where we reliably announce new episodes, share cover galleries, vintage letters columns, and Favorite & Notable Panels features! www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087785105727

_{Our great cover art, courtesy of Mikkel Hagen, adapted by Ruben Olsrud:}


EPISODES
_(Released:)

Episode 1:"the Son of the Sun" (guest host: Dan Cunningham, longtime fan; USA) 

Episode 2: "Nobody's Business" (guest host: Morten Guldberg, longtime fan; Norway)

Episode 3: "Mythological Menagerie"(guest host: Geoff Moses, aka GeoX of the Duck Comics Revue; USA)

Episode 4:  "Recalled Wreck" (guest hosts: Mikkel Hagen & Ruben Olsrud, artists & longtime fans; Norway)

Episode 5: "Cash Flow" (guest host: Thomas "Dillerpanda" Schrøder, artist/writer/translator; Denmark)

Episode 6: "Fit to Be Pied" (guest host: Alban Leloup, of the Donaldist webzine "Picsou Soir;" Belgium/France)

Episode 7: "Oolated Luck" (guest host: Orion Trunk, longtime fan; USA)

Episode 8: "Last Sled to Dawson" (guest hosts: Ted Johansson, artist of the Swedish comic strip "Bamse" and Duck fan art & Anders Christian "AC" Sivebæk, editor of the Danish Donaldist Society; Sweden & Denmark)

Episode 9: "Metaphorically Spanking" (guest host: Bucket Think Tank, Disney Comics YouTuber; USA)

Episode 10: "the Crocodile Collector" (guest hosts: Dan Cunningham, longtime fan & Austin Kelly, longtime fan; USA)

Episode 11: "His Fortune on the Rocks" (guest hosts: Sara Santiago, Disney Comics "newbie" & Tom Wormstedt, longtime fan; Scotland & USA)

Episode 12: "Return to Plain Awful" (returning guest hosts Ted Johansson & Anders Christian "AC" Sivebæk; Sweden & Denmark)

Episode 13: "Curse of Nostrildamus" (returning guest host Austin Kelly; USA)

Episode 14: "His Majesty, McDuck" (guest host: Harry Fluks, founder of INDUCKS; Netherlands)

Episode 15: "On a Silver Platter" (guest host: Maciek Kur, comics & animation writer/Disney podcaster; Poland)

Episode 16: "Making the Grade + other short stories" (guest host: Markku Mujunen, longtime fan/fan-artist; Finland)

Episode 17: "the Pied Piper of Duckburg" (guest host: Nils Lid Hjort, writer of Disney comics commentary/writer of Rosa's "the Annual Speedskating Race of the Burg of the Ducks"; Norway)

Episode 18: "the Money Pit" (returning guest host Orion Trunk; USA)

Episode 19: "the Master Landscapist" (returning guest hosts Mikkel Hagen & Ruben Olsrud; Norway)

[fredj]

Just as good as Barks Remarks. I really enjoyed the conversation with Geoff Moses, coming a bit from both sides of the Rosa spectrum so to speak.

[Pan Maciej]

Great retrospective on Rosa Nothing to add realy.

[queuemark]

Big update to this thread; I've added links to the most-recently released episodes and placeholder/preview entries for upcoming eps!

[Matilda]

Yay! I enjoyed the episode on "Fit to Be Pied". I was especially glad that you remembered to highlight Donald's response to the nephew asking "What's the last thing you remember?" Donald's response, "Orange!," was the funniest one-word line I've ever read in a comic. I was very sad to see that in Swedish Donald says, "Pumpkin! (Pumpa)"--which is the literal truth and not very funny at all. In that case the translator ruined a truly excellent punchline. Did the translator just not find it funny? I mean, it's not like Swedish doesn't have a word for "orange"! (The Swedish word for "orange" appears to be..."orange.")

[queuemark]

Jun 21, 2023 1:23:56 GMT Matilda said:

Yay! I enjoyed the episode on "Fit to Be Pied". I was especially glad that you remembered to highlight Donald's response to the nephew asking "What's the last thing you remember?" Donald's response, "Orange!," was the funniest one-word line I've ever read in a comic. I was very sad to see that in Swedish Donald says, "Pumpkin! (Pumpa)"--which is the literal truth and not very funny at all. In that case the translator ruined a truly excellent punchline. Did the translator just not find it funny? I mean, it's not like Swedish doesn't have a word for "orange"! (The Swedish word for "orange" appears to be..."orange.")

Thanks for your kind words! I agree, that response is a standout and very funny. It's a gag that Rosa seems to like, I recall that there is something similar in, I think "Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark"? Where Scrooge collides with the tree that's been planted on the path in front of him.

[fredj]

Jun 21, 2023 1:23:56 GMT Matilda said:

I was very sad to see that in Swedish Donald says, "Pumpkin! (Pumpa)"--which is the literal truth and not very funny at all. In that case the translator ruined a truly excellent punchline. Did the translator just not find it funny? I mean, it's not like Swedish doesn't have a word for "orange"! (The Swedish word for "orange" appears to be..."orange.")

Swede here. Perhaps it has to do with how it sounds, pumpa is a funnier word than orange. Also just saying orange sounds wrong to my ears, it's a word that doesn't have a fitting written form for the context.

That being said I agree the English punchline is much funnier.

[Matilda]

Jun 21, 2023 16:07:15 GMT fredj said:

Jun 21, 2023 1:23:56 GMT Matilda said:

I was very sad to see that in Swedish Donald says, "Pumpkin! (Pumpa)"--which is the literal truth and not very funny at all. In that case the translator ruined a truly excellent punchline. Did the translator just not find it funny? I mean, it's not like Swedish doesn't have a word for "orange"! (The Swedish word for "orange" appears to be..."orange.")

Swede here. Perhaps it has to do with how it sounds, pumpa is a funnier word than orange. Also just saying orange sounds wrong to my ears, it's a word that doesn't have a fitting written form for the context.

That being said I agree the English punchline is much funnier.

Well, that's very interesting! I wonder whether the fact that "it's a word that doesn't have a fitting written form for the context" is due to the foreign origin of the word? Or would the same be true of another color, like red, in Swedish?

[fredj]

Jun 21, 2023 22:50:06 GMT Matilda said:

Jun 21, 2023 16:07:15 GMT fredj said:

Swede here. Perhaps it has to do with how it sounds, pumpa is a funnier word than orange. Also just saying orange sounds wrong to my ears, it's a word that doesn't have a fitting written form for the context.

That being said I agree the English punchline is much funnier.

Well, that's very interesting! I wonder whether the fact that "it's a word that doesn't have a fitting written form for the context" is due to the foreign origin of the word? Or would the same be true of another color, like red, in Swedish?

I think red would work for me. Red is "röd" but in that context I think it should take the form "rött" ("something that is red"). The common spoken form of orange would in the same way be "oranget", but that form doesn't exist in the dictionary and looks really weird. The same is the case for beige so it's probably due to them being later French loanwords. So written down in should just be "orange", even though its pronounced with a -t. In this context where it's just a one word sentence this is a problem - does "orange" in this case signify "orange" or "oranget"? For an adult the answer would be obvious but it might be confusing for a kid. 

[fredj]

Very interesting listening to Harry Fluks talking about Inducks in the latest episode, it has even led me to start entering my collection into the database.

I've also been thinking of my own history with Rosa's stories. I know the first story of his that I "read". It was Mythological Menagerie, published in Kalle Anka & Co #1/1990, which also was the first issue of my subscription to the magazine. I say "read" because I was only three years and little over three weeks old when it was published. It was Rosa's first story in the Swedish weekly, although two other stories had already been published in other titles (Fir-Tree Fracas in a Christmas album in 1988, and Fit to be Pied in an issue of the monthly Mickey Mouse magazine in 1989).

The story must have made a strong impression on me since I have clearer childhood memories of it than several other stories published during the following year. Although perhaps it's because that particular issue "survived" when some others didn't. In any way I know I must have become a devotee by 1991 at the latest, because by then I was old enough to have very strong first memories of stories such as On Stolen Time, The Money Pit, Incident at McDuck Tower and War of the Wendigo. Definitely by the time Life and Times started in november of 1992. I also think he visited the Gothenburg Book Fair in 1991 (or 1990? 1992?) which led to a presentation of him in Kalle Anka, which made him very unique as a named creator at a time when all other stories were anonymous.

[queuemark]

Just updated this thread, which I haven't tended in a long time. Podcast is still active, however, and now approaching 20 episodes! We've had many great conversations with guests from the USA, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Scotland, Netherlands, Poland, and Finland!

The podcast recently received a very positive review, that I thought I would share here. This is from a comment on a Facebook thread in which I promoted a recent episode, and came from Rosa himself!

"Anyway, I suppose you can guess that *I* listen to your podcasts all the time. Obviously, anyone likes to listen to himself being praised, but that's not the main reason I enjoy listening. Sure, lotsa people tell me how much they like this story or that story, and that's swell. But I never hear or read anyone discuss a story in detail. And what I enjoy about that is not just that someone likes a story, but I know that enjoyment comes because they totally "GET IT"! They see exactly what I'm trying to do in each situation... when I'm foreshadowing a plot element in a subtle way; when I'm making references to movies or TV shows or other comics that I hope the reader notices, or even sometimes when I'm doing it for my own private amusement; when I use a particular cinematic "camera" angle for effect; and a thousand and one other ways I tell a story in my particular way to make it work. You *and* your guest hosts always seem to catch ALL the bits, both comedic and dramatic, that I want readers to "get" to enjoy the story to the utmost. And if only *one* of you "gets it", it's always YOU. So, I surely enjoy your podcasts more than anyone else possibly could."

Kind words, indeed! Contrary to his first line, I supposed nothing of the sort, and you could have knocked me over with a feather!

So anyway, give it a listen!