Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: "The Son of the Sun" - Don Rosa Library (DISNEY ROSA DUCK LIBRARY HC)

If you don't know comic book legends, Carl Barks was the GOOD artist back in the 40s (-70s) who was beloved but unknown to Duck fans. He gave us the out of cartoon Donald with slapstick and great adventures. He created Uncle Scrooge McDuck and even more adventures! He was THE artist/writer of the Ducks. Don Rosa is the Heir to that Throne, creating many great stories about and even expanding on the stories of Barks in the 80's-2000's. Having seen Don recently he said he was looking forward to the volumes so that he could have all his stories in English in collected volumes. I decided that what works for Don works for me and I picked up the first two volumes. I have some of these in comics and others in graphic novels but this looks to be a good way to keep them. The stories go in order and they are a lot of fun. If you like good adventures with humor, Barks and Rosa have it covered. If you like humor, they have it covered. Rosa is a MASTER story teller. PERIOD. The printing to me is very good, colors look great and the stories are larger than normal with good boundaries. You won't miss part of the story or art because it is stuck in the binding of the book. Don does a short intro to the book and then has a lengthy afterward where he discusses himself, the stories and shares thought on the various covers he did for Gladstone and others. Nice cover gallery. You can buy other volumes and the two volume sets come with a slipcase but those volumes are WAY overpriced for me. I will look to get the double sets when they originally come out.

This is a collection of the first two years or so of Don Rosa's Disney duck comics. For those who are unfamiliar, Don Rosa is, along with Carl Barks (creator of Uncle Scrooge) and Floyd Gottfriedson (artist of the 1930s and 1940s Mickey Mouse newspaper comics), one of the greatest of the Disney comic book/strip artists. The Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comic books, especially those written by Barks and Rosa, are very different than the Disney cartoons. Donald, Scrooge, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie presented here are resourceful adventurers and have enormously more charcterization than the one joke cartoon versions. While these stories were originally written for children, they never talk down to them, and are fairly sophisticated in plotting and vocabulary. These are great adventure stories (and some joke/gags) that happen to feature talking ducks. Don Rosa is a fabulous artist, and while in these early stories his art isn't as refined as it became later, it's still pretty darned good. Mr Rosa is also a fabulous storyteller, and he takes great pains to keep his stories consistent with each other and with Carl Barks' stories as well. Barks and Rosa's Duck world is consistent and vastly detailed. This is some good comic book work and it is a shame that too often these comics are dismissed as kid stuff, unfairly. The book is up to the usual Fantagraphics standard, a beautiful, slightly oversized hardcover with commentary on each story by Mr. Rosa himself. The production values are terrific, the colors are bright, bold, and clean, and the level of detail in the art is obvious. We Duck fans have been waiting a long time for a complete collection of Don Rosa's work, much of which wasn't published in the United States, and given the quality of this volume, it was worth the wait. It is over all an amazing collection of an amazing artist and I'm waiting eagerly for the remaining volumes in the series (and the remaining Carl Barks books, also from Fantagraphics)!

Me and my children of 3, Luke who is 10, Lily who is 7 and Samantha who is 4 simply adore Don's duck comics. We are a "Read Aloud" family and we have a family tradition of reading novels and comics together at dinner or sitting on the floor in the living room or in the hallway. These are our favorite to read and snuggle together with. Seriously, these are some of the greatest adventures, cultures, morality tales, economics and comedy I have ever encountered. Add to all of this Don's immense talent to illustrate the most minute of things and you have one of the most all-time greatest origins for an author and illustrator I can think of. This doesn't even mention his captivating pacing and jaw dropping ability to make climax story telling both boggle your mind as well as teach you even basic things like physics and even problem solving for how to escape certain situations. If the ducks can think of it, so can you. Don's duck stories are on par with any other modern and historical comics, they are mesmorizing. Yes, thats the word. His stories, settings, characters, plots and motivations mesmorize you into never putting some of these masterpieces down. If this is merely Vol 1. how grand must all the other stories be as well?!?!

The Don Rosa Library is great fun and packed with added value in behind the scenes insight provided by the artist/author. This is one of the last volumes still available at issue price!

Second only to Carl Barks, Keno Rosa is a cartoonist and story teller of the finest caliber. Whether extending an original Barks duck adventure or developing his own original stories; Mr. Rosa can appeal to anyone from 3 to 93 and maybe beyond. Several artists such as Marco, Jeeps, and Van Horne can mimic the Barks style of cartooning the Disney Ducks; however, only Rosa has come so close to catching the Barks ability to tell a very satisfying and often educational tale. Don's drawing of the ducks is not a mimic of Carl Barks, it is a bit heavier handed, yet has a fine quality all of its own. And Rosa's work reeks of quality in both artwork and story telling. If you love the works of Carl Barks, you will also love the works of Don Keno Rosa. Very Highly Recommended.

A fun read would highly recommend this book to a ducktales fan.

Not liking a Don Rosa “Uncle Scrooge” story is like not liking music by The Beatles, or not liking ice cream, or Christmas Eve... and “The Son Of The Sun” is probably his best-known, most popular work. I used to own three copies of the Gladstone issue it first appeared in, and was almost catatonic from depression when I had to sell my collection: but thanks to treasuries like this, I’m able to enjoy almost everything I owned all over again ~ the Carl Barks & Don Rosa Libraries are real gold for collectors of comics, or great books in general. Perfect for reading by the fireplace on a cold night, each volume is filled with adventures both children and adults will fall in love with. And a Thank you to Labyrinth Books~

Fantagraphics continues to impress me with their wonderful collections, the collection of Prince Valiant is excellent, the collection of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse and the Carl Barks Library are wonderful, now surprises us with this spectacular book by Don Rosa, the design, the printing and color quality is beautiful. Don Rosa and Carl Barks are the most iconic artists of the ducks, made the most dramatic stories of Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck and nephews, and with this collection the most sincere and honest homage is paid to them. Libraries look great with these books, the truth is a pleasure to have these books and read them. For collectors or just those who want to be entertained for a while, do not hesitate to buy this book, it is an investment for which there is no complaint. I'm eager to buy the other books that make up this collection. I want within their collections Fantagraphics published the serials of Mickey Mouse by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry, are wonderful stories of the world of Disney that deserve to be presented and preserved for future generations with this excellent quality.

Any fans of the Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge era of comics should be keen to add this to their collection. As a huge Barks fan, I found it really interesting to track Rosa's own fandom and journey into a 'duck comic' creator.

Don Rosa è forse l'autore più amato fra gli autori Disney stranieri, insieme a giganti come Barks, Gottfredson, Walsh, Van Horn... Proprio partendo dalle storie di Barks Donald Rosa inizia il suo amore per il mondo Disney, o, come precisa sempre: per l'universo dei paperi. Don Rosa ha avuto il merito di creare un suo personale modo di vedere Paperino e Zio Paperone, un modo che non ammette l'immortalità dei personaggi, ma che li localizza sempre e comunque nel Calisota degli anni '50. L'amore incondizionato di Rosa per le storie di Barks lo hanno portato a studiarne assiduamente sia lo sviluppo delle storie, di cui scriverà seguiti che sono dei veri e proprio capolavori, e il disegno. Per sua ammissione Rosa non è un abile cartoonist (avrei molto da ridire, trovo infatti i suoi disegni piacevolissimi, migliori certamente alla lunga di certi disegni presenti, per esempio, sul Topolino odierno), ma ridisegnando alla sfinimento le vignette di Barks ne ha imparato lo stile cercando però di essere originale. La raccolta in questione ci propone la cronologia completa delle storie di Rosa, ovviamente in lingua inglese (si tratta di una collana statunitense), che al momento per noi italiani è l'unico modo per affacciarci all'opera di questo straordinario autore, in Italia ancora non si vede nemmeno lo volontà di una raccolta simile. Esteticamente i volumi sono superlativi: rigidi, cartonati, la carta è resistente e i colori sono vivi, una manna dal cielo per i collezionisti, piacevolissimo da sfogliare e tenere in mano. Oltre all'introduzione in ogni volume, scritta da Rosa, in fondo troveremo qualche appunto sulle storie presenti nell'albo e una sezione biografica dell'autore. Quanto alle storie, impossibile rimanerne delusi, ripeto che Rosa è uno dei migliori autori Disney e quasi ognuna delle storie uscite dalla sua penna sono capolavori meritevoli di essere letti e riletti come avviene per pochi altri fenomeni del fumetto Disney. L'unica pecca nella carriera di Don Rosa è probabilmente la sua brevità, esso conta, se non vado errato, una produzione di 88 storie, che saranno raccolte quindi in circa 10 volumi. Il costo totale della collana si aggirerà quindi intorno ai 300 euro, ma considerate che escono 2 volumi all'anno, acquistabili anche in box, con possibilità di minore spesa. Tra le storie del primo volume basti citare il capolavoro assoluto "Uncle scrooge and The son of th sun", prima avventura scritta da Don Rosa che lo battezza senza dubbio successore di Barks. Se siete appassionati di fumetto Disney, in particolare del "mondo papero", una serie così è d'obbligo, certo la lingua può essere un piccolo ostacolo, se il vostro inglese è perfetto non avrete problemi, se siete un po' più indecisi come il sottoscritto prendetelo come un modo per migliorare il vostro lessico, posso assicurare che è molto efficace, più di un romanzo o di un articolo probabilmente. Grazie a questo splendidi volumi capirete cosa può regalare il mondo Disney quando i suoi personaggi sono in mano a dei fumettisti che ne hanno compreso lo spirito (e ad onor del vero in Italia abbiamo avuto ottimi interpreti, anzi, tendenzialmente migliori degli stranieri), il Paperino e lo Zio Paperone che vi troverete davanti saranno quasi certamente il modello che preferirete in assoluto e vi rimarranno nel cuore.

Una edición exquisita con unas historias maravillosas. Din Rosa sabía lo que hacía, y lo hacía muy bien.

I was hesitant.....could anyone come close to Carl Barks?Surely not possible.But eventually I plunged,and bought volume one of Don Rosa's work.And I wasn't disappointed,thankfully.This continuation of the greatest heritage of comics works does a good job of continuing the legacy of the great Carl.I grew up reading about Scrooge and Donald,and have never lost my taste for them,never will,and now I can enjoy more of their adventures,albeit by another hand.Suitable for kids of all ages,be you 5 or 500(I;m not quite Methusalah---yet!) a very welcome discovery for me.Happy hours ahead!

Belas estórias escritas e desenhadas por Keno Don Rosa, o verdadeiro herdeiro do Homem dos Patos, capazes de agradar todas as idades. Fãs de Carl Barks e do adorável pão duro não podem deixar de ler.