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Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his comics about Scrooge McDuck and other Disney characters. Many of his stories are built on characters and locations created by Carl Barks.

Rosa created about 90 stories between 1987 and 2006, and in 1995 his 12-chapter work The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck won the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story.

Career

The Pertwillaby Papers and early non-ducks work

Rosa's first published comic was an adventure comic strip titled The Pertwillaby Papers created for his college newspaper The Kentucky Kernel in 1971. Rosa graduated from University of Kentucky in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. By the time he graduated, the comic had amassed 127 chapters.

While making The Pertwillaby Papers Rosa also contributed art and articles to comic fanzines. One contribution was An Index of Uncle Scrooge Comics.……

Gladstone

In 1986, Rosa discovered a Gladstone Comics comic book.……

Personal life

In 1980, Rosa married Ann Payne (1950–2025). Payne was a middle-school social studies teacher.

Character

Don Rosa describes himself as an introvert due to being socially isolated as a child. Also, he thinks of himself as a workaholic.

Rosa suffered from depression during the years before he quit. He believes that it was caused by working hard while taking little time for leisure, a result of his self-imposed work regimen due to his enthusiasm for Barks' characters.

Work

In Europe, Rosa is recognized as one of the best Disney comics creators. Carl Barks and Rosa are among the few artists who have their name written on the covers of Disney magazines when their stories are published. Rosa enjoys including subtle references to his favourite movies and comics as well as his own previous work. He normally uses about twelve panels per page, instead of the more common eight.

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page adventure featuring Scrooge McDuck for his Finnish fans called;……

Awards

His work has won Rosa a great deal of recognition in the industry, including nominations for the Comics' Buyer's Guide Award for Favorite Writer in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Heidi MacDonald of Comics Buyer's Guide also mentioned Rosa's 1994 story "Guardians of the Lost Library" as "possibly the greatest comic book story of all time".

In 1969, while still in college, Rosa won an award as "best political cartoonist in the nation in a college paper". "I'm not really an editorial cartoonist. I'd much rather be doing comedy adventure.……

Biographies

In 1997 the Italian publishing house Editrice ComicArt published a lavish volume about Rosa's biography and work related to the Disney characters. It was titled Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano ("Don Rosa and the Disneyean Renaissance") and written by famous Disney and Rosa scholars, Alberto Becattini, Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano. This work not only discusses all of Rosa's creative life up to 1997, but it also gives a comprehensive biography, lists up to that date his Disney work and presents an extensive interview with Rosa.

Comic collections

United States

• The Don Rosa Classics — The Pertwillaby Papers
• The Don Rosa Classics — The Adventures of Captain Kentucky

The Don Rosa Classics — The Early (So-Called) Art of Don Rosa

The Don Rosa Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color Vols. 1–8

• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
• The Barks/Rosa Collection Vols. 1–3
• Walt Disney Treasury: Donald Duck Vols. 1–2

Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library Vols. 1–10

Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: Artist's Edition Vols. 1–2

The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Vols. 1–2