Rosa Remarks: a Don Rosa Podcast

Guests: Ryan Bailey & Morten Guldberg | This episode covers one of Rosa's sequels to a Carl Barks 10-pager, "Super Snooper," and is tacitly about the comic book industry and the difference between superhero and "funny animal" comics.

Guest Host: Geoff Moses {aka GeoX of the Duck Comics Revue} Listeners, we're back after a hiatus and ready and rarin' to cover Rosa's sequel to the Barks classic story in which the ducks first encounter the Peeweegah tribe! My guest and I discuss the story's environmentalist message, how it works as a sequel, and much more!

Guest Host: Alban Leloup | Time! It's time to set your watch, and give this episode a listen, as we discuss this time-focused Scrooge adventure! Join us as we wrap our heads around the international date line, ponder Talespin, and debate whether Glomgold is less of a heel than Scrooge in this story.

Guest Hosts: A.C. Sivebæk & Ted Johansson | Listeners, get your safety gear ready, as we journey close to the top floor of McDuck Tower! My guests and I discuss this classic Rosa ten-pager, with its dark humor and great use of onomatopoeia!

Guest: Chand John | Greetings, listeners! Grab your yard-sale spacesuits and gear up to journey through the atmospheric layers and rapidly back down again! We're talking "the Duck Who Fell to Earth" and its top-notch scientific story-telling!

Guest Host: Harry Fluks (founder of INDUCKS) | Listeners, join us as we discuss one of Rosa's masterpieces, a sequel story that weaves two classic Barks tales together, along with a classic Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem and some of the most thrilling and affecting storytelling seen in any Disney comic!

Guest Host: Thomas "Dillerpanda" Schrøder | Listeners, journey with us, to the surface, then to the bottom of the Spanish Main! As we venture deep to discuss Rosa's classic treasure hunt tale, "Treasure Under Glass," a high concept masterpiece!

Guest Host: Bucket Think Tank | <CLICK!> Listeners, why not stop time long enough to take a leisurely listen to our episode on Rosa's time-stopping classic? Listen as my guest and I discuss the mechanics of Gyro's invention, how well balanced the character action is in this one, and some of the ramifications of the device!

Guest Hosts: Mikkel Hagen & Ruben Olsrud Get out your...lawnmowers? Donald has had a lot of "Brittle Mastery" moments, but nothing like his turn as the "Master Landscapist!" My guests and I discuss Rosa's take on Barks' story typology in this episode!

Guest Host: Orion Trunk Greetings listeners! Join us as we delve into the depths of Scrooge's money bin, and encounter the valuable coins buried within! Try to resist the urge to sell them, however, as that way lies ruin...My guest and I discuss Rosa's follow-up to Carl Barks' legendary "the Trouble with Dimes" ten-pager, with its thesis about the folly of Collecting. Whateve...

Guest: Nils Lid Hjort Welcome to a very special episode, a cross-post with the Barks Remarks podcast! We are discussing Rosa's take on one of Barks' Gyro Gearloose stories, that the Duck Man abandoned in roughly 1958 or 1959, after penciling just 3 pages. The editors later assigned Don Rosa to provide his take on a complete story, published in 1990. Dutch comics legend Daan Jippes would al...

Guest Host: Markku Mujunen | Listeners, this episode covers an assortment of Rosa stories, gags, and ephemera; all the short Disney comics that didn't quite merit their own episode. Many of these were written by other writers (generally from the Netherlands), and one was ONLY written by him. "Making the Grade" receives the main focus, as the only finished story of ten pages in link....

Guest: Maciek Kur | "On a Silver Platter" is one of Rosa's all-time classic ten-page stories. My guest and I discuss Rosa's first real use of Magica DeSpell in a story, the incredible high concept, the hapless Vesuvius detectives, and one of the best four-panel sequences in Disney Comics!

Guest Host: Harry Fluks | What ho, varlet? Make sure your passport is in order and journey with us to McDuckland, the sovereign mini-state governed by his royal stinginess, Scrooge McDuck, the First! I'm joined by Harry Fluks, who conceived the great Disney Comics resource INDUCKS, so we have some conversation about that project in addition to discussing this classic Scrooge adventure, a loose...

Guest Host: Austin Kelly | Listeners, we predict that you will enjoy this episode, covering one of Rosa's early ten-page gag stories; a mini-adventure set in pastoral France, and featuring a parody version of the world's most famous soothsayer! This Looney Tunes-esque escapade features a great high concept and some highly entertaining scenarios!

Guest Hosts: A.C. Sivebæk & Ted Johansson | Listeners, join us as my guests and I discuss Don Rosa's first fully-fledged sequel to a Barks story, the all-time classic "Lost in the Andes." Rosa was commissioned to do this "Return" story to accompany one of Carl Barks' great oil paintings. There is a LOT to discuss in this packed episode, including the usual Barks ref...

Guests: Sara Santiago & Tom Wormstedt | Listeners, we think you'll have a gneiss time listening to this episode, and its groan-inducing geological puns! Join us as we discuss geology, the Arizona desert, and the art of puns!

Guest Hosts: Dan Cunningham & Austin Kelly | Join us, Rosa fans, as we talk about this continent-spanning adventure, as the ducks trek across Africa in search of the world's rarest animal, in Rosa's successor to Barks' "Trail of the Unicorn," a great yarn that also evokes Barks' "the Philosopher's Stone," as well as classic Indiana Jones movies! My guest...

Guest Host: Bucket Think Tank | Listeners, get ready to play hooky from school (or work, considering our demographic), so you can hear us talk about this very funny ten-pager! We'll discuss playing hooky, corporal punishment, "Casey at the Bat," and the Barks' truancy stories in this great conversation!

Guest Hosts: Ted Johansson & Anders Christian "AC" Sivebæk || Listeners, this is a big one! Rosa's third adventure story is this stunning follow-up to Barks' "Back to the Klondike" and the the story which will presage his work on "the Life and Times." My guests and I discuss the stunning locale, the poetry connection, Rosa's thesis, and much more!

Guest host: Orion Trunk | Listeners, join us as we discuss this ten-page story, with a plot element derived from an obscure Carl Barks background gag! We'll talk about the futility of going up against Gladstone Gander in a raffle, whether we prefer our squiggs oolated or un-oolated (for my money, they're way too slippery without the oolation), and much more!

Guest Host: Alban Leloup Happy Halloween (in May)! This episode is dedicated to Rosa's jack-o-lantern focused ten-pager, and the only story he did that primarily features Donald's feuding neighbor Jones! My guest and I discuss the difference between Halloween in the U.S. and his native Belgium/France, Donald's longtime grudge with Neighbor Jones, and more!

Guest Host: Thomas "Dillerpanda" Schrøder Get out your ray guns, listeners! This episode covers Rosa's second adventure story, the physics-bending "Cash Flow!" Join me and Danish Disney Comics man-of-many-hats (he's an editor/translator/writer (and Duckburg Consultant!) Thomas Schrøder, as we discuss Rosa's engineering storytelling, his use of juuust the right numbe...

Guest Hosts: Mikkel Hagen & Ruben Olsrud Listeners, this episode covers Rosa's 3rd ten-page gag story and, like the story in question, is basically a love letter to Donald's beloved car! My guests and I are all fans of the 1934 Belchfire Runabout, and we had a great time talking about this suburban story featuring Donald who is actually very good at something, namely car maintenance. B...

Guest Host: Geoff Moses Listeners, welcome to episode 3, where we get to talk about Rosa's second ten-pager gag story and his first Junior Woodchuck-themed one! Rosa will go on to establish and explore a rather significant mythology for Barks' Boy Scouts analogue, but here he follows them in a spiritual successor to the Duck Man's classic "Ten-Star Generals!" This story featu...