Don Rosa Kalenteri 2003 - March
Title: Don Rosa Kalenteri 2003 - March Year: 2002 Publisher: Aku Ankka/Egmont Code: Qfi/VK2003 D Size: 29.0 cm  x  41.5 cm Published: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Don Rosa's comments: MARCH: LAST SLED TO DAWSON The pin-up for the still cold month of March is from another tale of the Yukon Territory, my own "Last Sled to Dawson" which I did early in my career. This was a story very dear to my heart, as are all the tales I tell that involve $crooge's "old flame" Glittering Goldie! And it was a story that I drew with Carl Barks' own drawing board covering my drawing-table, the same board on which Mr. Barks drew all of his greatest $crooge adventures; by 1988 the drawing board was in the possession of Prof. Donald Ault who generously loaned it to me for the occasion of this special story. As with February's pin-up, this adventure uses Barks' Soapy Slick, whom Barks had used only in his "North of the Yukon" tale (see February). Soapy again is after something that belongs to $crooge - this time it's $crooge's original dogsled, frozen into a glacier in 1899. $crooge has returned to Dawson City when he heard that the section of the glacier containing his old sled is about to fall into the Yukon River, and Soapy assumes the sled must contain a fortune in gold nuggets from $crooge's old diggings on White Agony Creek. In reality, the sled only contains $crooge's prospecting gear which he treasures as the tools that helped him begin his fortune. and it also contains a frozen box of chocolates that $crooge was taking to Dawson City to give to Glittering Goldie. At the bottom of the pin-up is a fanciful vision the event that never took place in 1899. $crooge never was able to deliver the chocolates to Goldie, but if he had, she would have seen the letter that was inside the box. What was in that letter? Whatever it was, it would have changed the course of $crooge's life, and he would never have become the tycoon of Duckburg. Would $crooge's life have been happier if he had managed to deliver the note to Goldie in 1899? Hmmm. By the way, to emphasize the importance of this moment in $crooge's life, I used a special design on the top of the chocolate box - that's the rosebud design from Charles Foster Kane's sled. If you've never seen CITIZEN KANE, that won't make sense to you. which is too bad. (But having never seen the greatest movie ever made is far worse than not understanding my chocolate box design.) (D.U.C.K. spoiler: The location of the hidden dedication is easier to solve than the mystery of how the delivery of that box of chocolates would have changed $crooge McDuck's life. My dedication to the Old Master could only belong in that same special candy box! Check the top row of chocolates right next to $crooge's thumb.)	Scan of "Don Rosa Kalenteri 2003 - March".
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