interviews with Don Rosa in Norway

[Nils Lid Hjort]

After his rockstarian week in Finland Don Rosa briefly
visited Oslo on his way home to the USA. In addition 
to a couple of meetings with tangential business aspects
to them this resulted, or is in the process of resulting in,
a couple of interviews. 

(1) The most publicly visible one is a two-page spread in 
"Dagens Næringsliv" on November 27, with interviewer 
Hugo Lauritz Jenssen, titled "Donald in Sisu Land". 
It has a nice picture of DR with noone else than DD
on top of Egmont's rather scroogebinnian main office
building in Oslo, and four scenes from the Kalevala story. 
The timing was good, in that this occurred the Saturday 
before the first of the three consecutive Kalevala
Tuesdays in Norway. So *some* people who don't regularly
buy the weekly DD will actually do it for this occasion
(hi mom and dad!). 

In the interview, Jenssen (with Rosa) take up various Kalevalian 
aspects, mentions the Hiawatha Longfellow 1855 connection, 
Barks' pygmy indians, the extra 34th Finnish page, Sibelius, 
the runo-rhythm, and so on (one feels that Jenssen eagerly 
must have studied the Norwegian/Swedish "introduction page"!). 
Jenssen even mentions the doctoral thesis of Elias L{\"o}nnrot, 
and is as scholarly informative with respect to where the different 
bits of the Kalevala have been gathered as "Donald Duck"'s 
special Kalevala-consultant was when he first communicated 
with the editors. At the end of the interview Rosa laments 
the state of affairs of Disney comics in the USA, with 
the end (???) of Gladstone and so on. 

(2) Secondly I understand there will be an interview conducted
by occasional list contributor Erik Hørthe, to be published
on the web. I just checked with http://www.donald.no , but cannot
find anything there? Could you enlighten us, Erik? 

(3) Thirdly there will be a little but privileged interview/report 
published in a week or two in a school magazine publication
in Oslo, complete with a nice Rosa drawing made for the occasion. 

Nils Lid Hjort