Rosa in Holland

[Fluks, H.W.]

This month seems to be a Dutch Rosa-month. An overview:

1. DONALD DUCK EXTRA number 5 has the "BB versus the money bin" story. Below
both circles in the opening panel the text "Made up by Carl Barks" is shown.
I'm not sure that everyone will understand that not the *story*, but the
*main characters* were made up by Barks.

As I wrote before, they *do* use the two blueprint pages, to my surprise. I
saw a few minor mistakes ("F.J.Drake" on one page, "F.L. Drake" on the
other), but apart from the big euro-sign, the translations seems to be OK.
It includes "Dr. D. Shane" and "Keno Rosa BV, Louisville".

Page 13 has the text "Footnote: this intersection drawing is not completely
worked out, for the overview (but mainly because the artist was too LAZY for
it)". Does this reflect the original text? (To me it looks like an apology
that the panel does not match with the blueprints...)

2. A new album in the series OOM DAGOBERT, number 67. This time its title is
"The life story of US" again, like in the first Rosa albums. That's because
they reprint the "Hearts of the Yukon" story (D 95044).

This is the first time that a Dutch "Life of Scrooge" album was not backed
up with LoS stories. The backup stories are normal Duck stories (but still
by Rosa, so some people might object to the word "normal" 8-).

Between page 8 and 9 of the Yukon story, there is a page with an explanation
that Rosa continues to make LoS stories. The page also has a photograph of
Jack London.

And then there's another editorial page, where the Dutch try to put all the
LoS stories in the right order. This is their order:
Chapter 1
Chapter 1-B, Ducks and Dimes and Destinies (they apparently didn't like the
term "chapter 0")
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 3-B, Cutty Sark
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 6-B, the Buffalo Bill story (will appear in the next OOM DAGOBERT
album)
Chapter 6-C, Lost Dutchman's mine
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 8-B, Hearts of the Yukon
Chapter 8-C, Last Sled to Dawson
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12

3. Yet again, there will be a "mini-album" in the Dutch weekly DONALD DUCK.
It contains the Crusader King story, in 2 parts. First part is next week
(week 21). Too bad that the printing will be smaller than normal again, just
like the Cutty Sark story. But maybe they'll reprint it later in an OOM
DAGOBERT album...

--Harry.