I just joined the mailing list, and read Don Rosa's comments about how
tightfisted Disney is with its money.  I didn't know that this was the
case, and figured that your contract was probably comparable to the 
other writer/artists in the industry.  I have to admit that this is
pretty bad.  Have you ever thought about writing some non-Disney material?
I think that your art and story telling skills are fantastic, and would 
love to see you attack something different.  I'm sure that you could do it,
but I'd be real disappointed if you did it at the expense of the Duck 
series.  I read in a previous post that someone sells your original artwork;
would it help if you sold it directly rather than through an agent? 

I read Chapter 1 of the Life of Scrooge saga last night, and enjoyed it
quite a bit.  I especially enjoyed the reference to the horseradish story,
because it is the first Scrooge story that I ever read back when I was 7;
it was the one that got me interested in the Duck comics to begin with.
My only disppointment (with US 285) was that it didn't run the whole 28 pages.
It seems like its been forever since the last Don Rosa story; at least now I
can be assured that there will be a story every other month for the next
two years.

Don Rosa: Do you give out your US Mail address? If you do, and if you are 
willing, I'd like to send you my copy of the Life of Scroooge issue for
an autograph.
			
				Frank DiCapua


