Don Rosa's production is not limited to stories only. Besides the stories he has, at an increasingly rate, been asked to draw covers, pin-ups, class schedules, calendars and even posters and also to write comments about his own work. According to Don Rosa the reason for this "…is the popularity of my work! I'm being called on to do pin-ups for publications... for instance in the French Picsou Magazine, every month I used to have the inside front cover. It was called the Don Rosa something; I can't read the French word, but I got my name on it.

I'm also called on by other publishers than the one I work for. When they reprint one of my stories, in their editions, they'll contact me, and hire me to do a cover, a special cover for them. Or they'll hire me to write a text, or annotate the story for their older readers, cause some of these other publishers work for an older audience - they're not aiming at an older audience, but they recognize that they can put additional material in the issue for the older readers. But, that doesn't get in the way of the younger readers enjoying the story. The younger readers can just ignore those text sections and go right to the story. So I think they have a great idea of how comics should be done in such a way that they can appeal to several different age levels or sophistication at the same time."

Prefer doing stories
"The more I'm called upon to do these extra things, the less time I have for doing the actual stories. And, I see myself as a storyteller. I can decline to do anything I am asked for since I am a freelancer, but I also like to do things when people I like ask for them. Even though I think doing such drawings usually are rather boring because it's hard work and I don't think I do it very well - it's OK to do these pin-ups, covers, special art and texts because they pay better than the writing and drawing of stories. The reason for that is that I am paid a set amount per page, regardless of how complex the art or storyline is, regardless of how many times the art is used or how well it sells, regardless of how many other publishers around the world other than the one that paid me also print the art. But, still, these people wouldn't be asking me to do this if it weren't for those stories. So, I worry about that I'm producing fewer and fewer stories. And, that's what I enjoy doing the most. So, I just have to keep maximizing my time and making sure it all works best."

About details such as noses
The observant reader would have noticed that some times Don Rosa draws historic persons like Christopher Columbus and Kublai Khan, like real people with real noses instead of the black noses which are typical for the human-characters in the stories. Don Rosa explain that this way: "I'd like to draw all historic figures that way, and I always do if I simply use them as a single image. If I use them as a character in a story, Egmont insists I draw them with black nose balls. But in "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut" which was done for France I fully intended to draw TR with a normal nose, but I decided not to since I'd already used him twice with a black nose ball, and I wanted it to be the "same" character."