30th Anniversary of 'Son of the Sun'

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Apparently, today is the thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of Don Rosa's Disney-comicking career. Hurrah! As all anniversaries need presents, here is a lovely piece put up today by the incredibly talented Ted Johansson, an independant comic artist in his own right who is uncannily good at imitating Rosa's artstyle (check out his Disney gallery on Deviant Art here)

[deb]

I remember reading it when it was first published.
I feel old now.

[fishpillow]

Apr 7, 2017 16:13:42 GMT deb said:

I remember reading it when it was first published.
I feel old now.

Same here. Wow time flies. I used to love those Gladstone titles and would buy them all. 

[drakeborough]

I guess in this forum there are not many people of my generaton, i.e. people who were not born yet when "The Son of the Sun" was first published.

[RobbK1]

Apr 7, 2017 16:13:42 GMT deb said:

I remember reading it when it was first published.
I feel old now.

Don't feel old, I remember when comic books ere are main evening entertainment, as no one had TVs in their houses!  And no one had clothes dryers, dishwashers, or garbage disposals, and everyone had coal furnaces and burned leaves and trash in their backyards, and dinners in a sitdown restaurant were $1.00 Canadian, and When Queen Elizabeth took over for King George, and when we sang "God Save The King".

[Matilda]

Ooh, thanks for posting the link to Ted Johansson's Disney gallery, Scrooge MacDuck! I much enjoyed it. I want that levitating Gyro on a cover!

The anniversary of "The Son of the Sun" brings back fond memories of those first Gladstones, but mostly, it makes me feel grateful for the current gorgeous Fantagraphics editions of the Complete Works. We could so easily *never* have had Rosa's complete works in English, which would have been such a shame!

[Huwey]

Apr 7, 2017 16:13:42 GMT deb said:

I remember reading it when it was first published.
I feel old now.

I wasn't born yet when it was first published.
I feel young now.

Seriously, I am happy that you are still interested in Disney Comics, although it is 30+ years ago when you read them!

[RobbK1]

Apr 8, 2017 17:04:49 GMT Huwey said:

Apr 7, 2017 16:13:42 GMT deb said:

I remember reading it when it was first published.
I feel old now.

I wasn't born yet when it was first published.
I feel young now.

Seriously, I am happy that you are still interested in Disney Comics, although it is 30+ years ago when you read them!

For ME it's 65+ years from when I first read many of them.   And Barks' stories set the tone for my whole life, and BOTH my careers, and my gypsy lifestyle, living on 2-3 continents each year, starting as a late teen and continuing almost every year after to this day.  And I'm not the only one.  I know of hundreds of others whose lives were moulded by reading Barks stories as a child.  Gottfredson's stories had a similar (though slightly less drastic) effect on myself and many others.

[deb]

Apr 8, 2017 17:04:49 GMT Huwey said:

Apr 7, 2017 16:13:42 GMT deb said:

I remember reading it when it was first published.
I feel old now.

I wasn't born yet when it was first published.
I feel young now.

Seriously, I am happy that you are still interested in Disney Comics, although it is 30+ years ago when you read them!

Eh, what's that? I can't read the small type on these doggone cell phone contraptions!
Seriously, though, I did go through a period where I stopped reading Disney comics on a regular basis, and picked them up only occasionally (trade paperbacks like The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Carl Barks' Greatest DuckTales Stories, BOOM's Disney Classics hardcovers)...And then Fantagraphics' Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks libraries came along, followed by Don Rosa...And then with IDW's new books, I was hooked again! (Although I've only read a couple of the Papercutz Disney titles. I could take or leave X-Mickey, but Mickey's Inferno was fun, and makes me curious about the other Great Parodies titles. I hope they'll use some that were in the Disney Literature Classics series, like Donald Duck's version of The Count of Monte Cristo.)

[Minotaur]

The first Don Rosa story I read is "The Dream of a Lifetime". Nowadays I am always curious how could I never read his story before, for the fact that I began to read Disney comics a few years earlier. It's very hard to believe I could read through his story but didn't notice his art style!

[rasterax]

I was born four months later - so old enough to read it when first printed in German in 1995. This story took quite a while to be released in other countries, except for France.

The first Rosa story to be published in Egmont countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany) appears to be "Fit to Be Pied", in the September 1989 issues of the monthly (bi-monthly in Germany) Musse Pigg/Mickyvision/Anders And Ekstra/Mikke Mus. First story to appear in the countries' main magazines (Anders And & Co/Micky Maus/Donald Duck & Co/Kalle Anka & C:o + the Finnish Aku Ankka) was "Mythological Menagerie" in their respective 1/1990 issues. "Oolated Luck" followed two issues later.

[number1dime]

I had a subscription at the time and wasn't completely sure I liked Don Rosa in the beginning. But over the years he has grown on me and I am quite fond of his work now.

[shoelesspashley]

This was the first Scrooge comic I every owned and now I know why. I remember my mom got it for me but the date of publication puts it just three days before my birthday.