Don Rosa

Don Rosa is an American comic-book writer and artist best known for Disney comics featuring Scrooge McDuck. His detailed stories often build on characters and continuity established by Carl Barks.

Scrooge McDuck: A wealthy, adventurous duck created for Disney comics by Carl Barks. Rosa made Scrooge the central figure of many of his best-known stories.
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: A comic-book series by Don Rosa chronicling Scrooge McDuck’s life before his appearances in Carl Barks’s stories. This twelve-chapter cycle is Rosa’s best-known sustained account of Scrooge’s past.
University of Kentucky: A public research university in Lexington, Kentucky, founded in 1865. Rosa earned an engineering degree there before beginning his professional comics career.
Keno Don Rosa: The full name used by American comic-book writer and artist Don Rosa. Rosa’s given name distinguishes his professional identity from the characters he draws.
Eisner Award: An annual American award recognizing achievement in comic books and graphic novels. Rosa won the award for his work on The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.
Carl Barks: An American cartoonist who wrote and drew influential Disney comics, especially stories about Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. Rosa treated Barks’s stories as the foundation of his own Scrooge McDuck comics.
The Last of the Clan McDuck: The first chapter of Don Rosa’s The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. It begins Rosa’s account of Scrooge’s early life in nineteenth-century Scotland.
The Pertwillaby Papers: A comic strip Don Rosa created while a student at the University of Kentucky. Its adventure storytelling and dense detail foreshadowed features of his later Disney work.
Vicar: The pen name of Chilean Disney comics artist Victor Arriagada Ríos. Vicar and Rosa worked within the international tradition of comics licensed from Disney.
Disney comics fandom: The international community of readers and collectors devoted to comics featuring Disney characters. Rosa’s intricate continuity and historical detail have sustained close study among fans.

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