Don Rosa and Picsou

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>2003-03-18 18:43:
>Subject: Re: Don Rosa and Picsou
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>[Goofy313g at aol.com wondered if Picsou could publish Rosa-stories about
>subjects like HDL's parents that are "banned" in Egmont.]
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>Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. replied:
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>> There are at least two reasons Don Rosa might not want to work for
>> Picsou right now:
>> 
>> 1) The old editor of Picsou, apparently a friend of his, was replaced
>> with people who seems to give a damn about his work. The pin-ups are 
>> gone, and they printed the wrong version of "Gyro's First Invention".
>
>Really? I think the old editor is still there. Please tell me if I´m wrong.
>
>As most of publishers makes those errors with stories every now and 
>then, I´m sure Don will not start to punish anyone because of that. He 
>or any other artist/writer could not work for anybody with that kind of 
>mentality. To err is human.
>
>> 2) The French are not very popular in the USA nowadays, as many
>> Americans now apparently sees the French as Saddam Husseins "useful 
>> idiots".
>
>I´m sure that Picsou people are not involved in their country´s 
>Iraq-policy. Nor that it would matter anyway, since Don is not the kind 
>of guy to let that type of issues to make any difference. (I´m not 
>judging the French policy here, I can certainly understand why they 
>would make such a choice, but lets not talk about politics here.)
>
>
>> My guess is thus that Don Rosa for the time being, would prefer to
>> Work for Gemstone before Picsou.
>
>Don is probably thrilled at the opportunity to work for Gemstone as you 
>can guess. Gemstone is unfortunately just starting, so they might not be 
>in a position to buy whole new stories just now. They can make better 
>profits with older Rosa-stuff at first. Picsou might be in a better 
>position as would other non-Egmont publishers.
>
>Still, since Don works slowly, he might want to consider who pays best 
>for his work, and that is Egmont. Makes more sense to me than any 
>political or staff-related reasons. There are bills to pay after all.
>
>Oh, and I completely agree with you about it being only Egmont´s policy 
>to not use HDL´s parents etc. Picsou and others could certainly use such 
>a story if they wanted.
>
>
>
>-- 
>- Kai Saarto
>http://www.perunamaa.net/donrosa
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