I *may* meet Don Rosa tomorrow

[H Birchgrove]

Sorry, the page is in Swedish. He signs stuff. (http://www.bok-bibliotek.se/sv/program/program-2011/?eventid=8386).

Göteborg (Gothenburg) Book Fair 2011. (http://www.bok-bibliotek.se/sv/)

I'm overwhelmed by the awesomeness of this. :smallbiggrin::smallredface:

(To those unfortunates who don't know who Don Rosa is: After Carl Barks (and possibly Al Taliaferro), he's the greatest Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge artist/writer EVER. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Rosa))

[Kalinda]

Sorry, the page is in Swedish. He signs stuff. (http://www.bok-bibliotek.se/sv/program/program-2011/?eventid=8386).

Göteborg (Gothenburg) Book Fair 2011. (http://www.bok-bibliotek.se/sv/)

I'm overwhelmed by the awesomeness of this. :smallbiggrin::smallredface:

(To those unfortunates who don't know who Don Rosa is: After Carl Barks (and possibly Al Taliaferro), he's the greatest Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge artist/writer EVER. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Rosa))


That is indeed very cool. I've read a bunch of his stuff and I don't think we're likely to get a better heir to the legacy.

[Elder Tsofu]

Congratulations, I had the opportunity a few years ago - and for me he is the best. :smallcool:
Hell, his work even managed to convert my mother to read comics.

Just be sure to note down where he is, I had a hell of a time finding him since I came less prepared than I should had - he is no big man. (and he sat by a wall in the middle of the fair so you couldn't see him from one half of it)

[Weimann]

Ah crap, I would have loved to meet him. I will be busy tomorrow, however.

Be sure to tell us what it was like.

[lord_khaine]

Dammit, i wish i had known that in advance, i doubt he will ever get as close to where i live as that.

[H Birchgrove]

It's late so I'll post later when my head is more clear - but I did meet him, I got three comic books signed (he even corrected a printing mistake on one of the covers! :smallbiggrin: ) and it was awesome. :smallcool: Didn't talk much with him because I got shy and there was queue behind me. :smallredface:

PS. I did other things at the Fair.

[NikitaDarkstar]

The one year I can't go to the book fair awesome sauce happens. Okay so it's always awesome, but still. (And hey I've met the guy who does Herman Hedning... and a few other of Swedens great authors.. but darn it I grew up on Donald Duck! >.<)

[hayabusa]

Lucky... I've just gotten in to the Duck comics, but I did make sure that The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck became my birthday gift this year. Rosa is great, but (he's probably say the same thing) Barks was just a bit better. Both of those did more for the Ducks than Disney proper ever did.

[grimbold]

It's late so I'll post later when my head is more clear - but I did meet him, I got three comic books signed (he even corrected a printing mistake on one of the covers! :smallbiggrin: ) and it was awesome. :smallcool: Didn't talk much with him because I got shy and there was queue behind me. :smallredface:

PS. I did other things at the Fair.

that is amazing
you're really lucky
congrats

[H Birchgrove]

I won't get a better opportunity to post this...

I can't say much more about Don Rosa and me meeting him than I have said before, but I'll try... It was a pity that I didn't have my copy of "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", because it's at my parents' place. Egmont (comics publisher who has the right of Disney comics here) did sell various anthology hardcovers, including the volume one of a new "Archive Edition" type of series which will re-print all of Rosa's Disney comics. I thought 450 SEK was bit too much for me right now; but I would probably have bought it if I hadn't already bought lots of SF books at a 2nd hand store that was at the fair. :smallsigh:

I had planned to ask Mr Rosa about his non-involvement in the animated Duck Tales series which like his comics were inspired by Carl Barks, for example if he hadn't gotten the deal to make comics for the Scandinavian market, what would have been his vision for the animated series (if he had gotten that level of power over it). But I didn't take the chance to ask him...

After having come home, I realised I would rather have asked about his pre-Disney Captain Kentucky comics; if he has any plans for it, like introducing it to Scandinavia etc, but that's academical now.

So, I did other stuff. I had a ticket for the seminar which I got for free from a LCS guy in my current home town, but I never got to visit a seminar. A pity. I mostly wandered around alone or with friends; I did see an interview with a thriller writer with one or two of my friends, and even asked a question to him! :smallcool: (His new book was about a mental institution, and I asked him how much he was influenced by pop cultural images of such places, like films and - dun dun dun! - Batman! :smallbiggrin: He said he that you can't completely avoid such connections, especially since even he had to romanticize - not necessarily his own word there - a bit to make the story interesting.)

Aside from the SF and Fantasy books, mostly pocket books in English (including Robert E Howard and Conan books) and various SC's and HC's from defunct Swedish publishers like Delta Förlag and Alpha Förlag. I bought maaaaybe too many books, but I still left many that I would have wanted to bring home. Tsk tsk! Also bought two graphic novels from the LCS guy who was there; I could have bought them at home but what the heck. John Carter of Mars and Sub-Mariner (by Gene Colan) is awesome! Making homo-erotic jokes about Golden and Silver Age comics with one of my friends is pretty fun too.

I also got one of my friends - who had just the day before (with my help) found out that our Uni library has Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns (in English, too!), which he borrowed - buy Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead (he likes the TV-series), Batman: Year One and V for Vendetta. Couldn't get him to buy The Killing Joke, but maybe he'll get it later. :smallcool:

Except for Mr Rosa, the only celebrity I glanced was Lars Ohly (to non-Swedes: former chairman of a Socialist party here), who I didn't greet due to, well, I'm just not a big fan of him though I don't hate him personally. One friend said hi to Jan Guillou (writer of the Carl Hamilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hamilton_%28fictional_character%29) spy novels, the Arn historical novels, etc)... and told me he was tempted to beat up Guillou for some untold reason. :smalleek: (My friend has a peculiar sense of humour, but still...)*

There is some more to tell, but since it would be inappropriate for this forum (and its rules) I might do it at my deviantART journal (http://captain-sweden.deviantart.com/). (I think I'll copy this post to it as well, with minor edits.)

* This wasn't the same friend who had just discovered comics for young adults.