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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> At first I'd like to thank Olivier for quick response and the links to webpages for ordering comics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>My pleasure-- really; it's great to hear from someone doing scholar work on Disney comics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><br>>>>> I have spent this morning in InDucks searching for the comics and publications I need and there seems<br>>>>> to be a quite good deal of Rosa published in collections, though there are several stories found only in single comic magazines.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Finding <i>The First Two Years of Don Rosa</i> to give you the link to the first book required searching for a story, as I could not find it otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Unless someone can come up with a list they already have, I’m afraid you’ll have to go through the INDUCKS pages of every single Rosa story and check the list of USA publications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>There may very well be a way to make the search easier, though; I have not found it in the INDUCKS’s Advanced Search pages, but I’m sure François must have included some way to distinguish softcovers and hardcovers from comics, and thus to search for them only.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> As for my thesis, in case other people are interested too: My subject is both fantasy and mimesis in Rosa's comics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> So I'm dealing with all the different fantasy worlds he uses (lost/hidden valleys, space, past, mythical places, "dreams", etc.),<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> the fantastic elements, and how Magica DeSpell and Gyro Gearloose bring their own fantasy/sci-fi to the stories.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> As for the mimesis, it includes all the references to real people, events and places, like Theodore Roosevelt, Jesse James, the sinking of the Titanic and so forth.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Very interesting, and lots of ground to cover.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> I have already done my Master's thesis solely on the fantasy side (only using the Finnish translations),<br>>>>> so I have a good background to start.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I did my Master on Hawthorne, Poe and Melville, but my main dissertation (the other one was on Faulkner) for the next degree was on Barks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> The doctoral thesis is only in its beginning, so it'll take a few years to be finished. :)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>>> So far I haven't heard of any doctoral level research being done on Rosa (or any Donald Duck comics).<br>>>>> Feel free to correct me, if I'm wrong. :)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Back to Melville in my case.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Back to Rosa, now.<br>I suppose you’re familiar with his non-Disney-but-really-Disney-Ducks-in-human-guise comics, The Pert Willaby Papers; have you been able to get a copy of Gazette Bok’s <i>The Don Rosa Archives</i> (two hardcover volumes)? I hope you were, or that you will, because they are worth having as such, and as the “drafts” (so to speak) for several of Rosa’s Duck adventures.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Olivier<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>