November 24., 2008 20 years with Don Rosa in Scandinavia! Today, the annual Christmas-publications have been put out for sale in Norway, thus we can celebrate that 20 years have past since the very first time a Rosa story (Fir-Tree Fracas) was printed in Scandinavia. November 17., 2008 Gemstone's Don Rosa Library is delayed. According to David Gerstein the book is still on the schedule, but likely for the summer rather than January. November 10., 2008 Recalled Wreck is re-pulished in the Scandinavian weeklies #46/2008. The Don Rosa Scandinavian story index has been updated accordingly. November 8., 2008 The Covers for Don Rosa's Stories section has been updated with three new coverscans for the stories: The Treasure of the Ten Avatars, The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff, and A Little Something Special. October 31., 2008 The 7th Rosa-book in the "Hall of Fame" series has recently been released. The Don Rosa Scandinavian story index has been updated accordingly. October 27., 2008 Last Sled to Dawson is republished in Danish Anders And Ekstra #11/2008. The old (and nonsense) Danish title for this story "Gensyn med fortiden" has finally been changed to the obvious "Siste slede til Dawson". October 17., 2008 The Covers for Don Rosa's Stories section has been updated with four new coverscans for the stories: Last Sled to Dawon, Treasure Under Glass, Return to Xanadu and Hearts of the Yukon. October 13., 2008 The Covers for Don Rosa's Stories section has been updated with four new coverscans for the stories: The Guardians of the Lost Library, From Duckburg to Lillehammer, The Treasury of Croesus and The Lost Charts of Columbus. October 9., 2008 The Don Rosa Scandinavian cover index section has been updated with a scan of the cover of the 7th Rosa volume in the Hall of Fame series. October 7., 2008 The 7th Rosa volume in the Hall of Fame series, has recently been published in Denmark. It includes one not-before published cover/pin-up drawing for "Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints". The Covers for Don Rosa's Stories section has been updated accordingly. September 29., 2008 New scans of the extra multi-part art for The Lost Charts of Columbus have been added to the The Two Worlds of Don Rosa section. September 9., 2008 My third fandrawing has been added to the Personal Stuff section. September 8., 2008 Metaphoricaly Spanking is re-published in the Scandinavian weeklies 37/2008. The Don Rosa Scandinavian story index has been updated accordingly. August 1., 2008 Both the Don Rosa Scandinavian story index and the Don Rosa Scandinavian cover index have been updated according to recent Scandinavian reprints of some stories. July 28., 2008 Cash Flow is republished in Danish Anders And Ekstra #8/2008. June 4., 2008 12 new photos from KOMIKS 2008 have been added to the Photo-album in the Personal Stuff section. Scans of Geoffrey Blums forword in the 1996 deluxe-edition of Lo$ have been added to the Introduc(k)tion to the work of Don Rosa section. June 2., 2008 On a Silver Platter is published in a Norwegian "Donald Duck & Co" jubilee-edition in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the weekly "Donald Duck & Co" magazine. May 29., 2008 Today it is 10 years ago since Swedish Kalle Anka readers, as the first readers in the world, were introduced to a totally new villain in the Duckburg-universe, as the French bon-vivant Arpine Lusene a.k.a. the master thief The Black Knight, was introduced in Don Rosas The Black Knight story. Lusene has later also appeared in Attaaaaaack! (2000) and The Black Knight GLORPS! Again (2004). Don Rosa created his new villain to fit in in a rewritten version of one of his old, but yet unfinished, chapters of his "The Pertwillaby Papers" saga, called Knighttime (1979+2001). May 26., 2008 Don Rosa confirms that his eyes are healed enough to allow him to go to the KOMIKS-festival in Copenhagen, Denmark from May 31st to June 1st. May 16., 2008 The Don Rosa Scandinavian cover index has been updated with a scan of the cover from the Danish Anders And Ekstra 5/2008. April 28., 2008 The Son of the Sun is published in Danish Anders And Ekstra #5/2008. This is the first Rosa-story to be published in Anders And Ekstra since #2/1991. The Danish publisher says that they now intend to publish all Rosas "long stories" in chronological order in Anders And Ekstra. April 19., 2008 The links section has been updated. April 5., 2008 Two new extra-covers (Return to Xanadu and Attaaaaaack!) have been added to the Covers for Don Rosa's Stories section. April 4., 2008 The The Two Worlds of Don Rosa section has been updated with scans from the US single-part version of The Treasury of Croesus. April 2., 2008 Well informed sources in the Danish Donaldist Society says that Don Rosa still intends to come to the KOMIKS.DK comics festival in Copenhagen on May 31st and June 1st this year. March 26., 2008 Don Rosa's close friend Dan Shane says on DCML that yesterday Don Rosa had a follow-up visit to the eye-doctor to check the progress of his recent surgery. It was discovered that his "good" eye was developing some rips (tears) that foretold the same retinal detachment he experienced in his left eye, so he again had an immediate operation - this time laser surgery to mend the rips (tears). His doctor fear that the retina in his right eye might also detach before his left eye has healed, rendering him blind in both eyes for months. March 25., 2008 A Matter of Some Gravity is published in #13-14/2008 of the Scandinavian Weeklies as a two-parter. The Scandinavian Story Index has been updated accordingly. March 24., 2008 Due to increased eye problems, Don Rosa went through an emergency eye operation (a vitrectomy and a pneumatic retinopexy) in his left eye, just before the Easter holidays. It will be weeks before it's possible to conclude whether the operation has been successful and the recovery time may be up to 6 months. March 17., 2008 Don Rosa volume 6 in Egmont's Walt Dinsey's Hall of Fame hard-cover book series has now been released. This volume includes for the very first time Scandinavian prints of the one-pager Gyro's Beagletrap, and also for the first time The Lost Charts of Columbus in Swedish. Thus all of Don Rosa's 86 stories have been published in all of Scandinavia finally making the "Stories not published in Scandinavia" list outdated. The Scandinavian Story Index and The Scandinavian Cover Index have been updated accordingly and the Stories not published in Scandinavia list has been removed. The News and Updates section has been updated. March 16., 2008 Gemstone intends to publish a complete Don Rosa Library (DRL) hardcover book series - seemingly in a style close to Egmont's "Walt Disney's Hall of Fame" book series. At Amazon December 24th 2008 is announced as the date for the publication of volume I of this new series. The announced price is $39.99. In DCF (The Disney Comics Forum) Gemstones David Gerstein says this about Gemstone's upcoming projects: "I can't give many details about these projects yet, other than to confirm that for right now they're in the works. Plans have been known to change, though. Lars is correct: Amazon's listings often reflect projects (from all publishers) that may not ultimately come out as originally expected. But at least you can see what we presently *want* to do. The cover pictures at this point, by the way, are just quick "Americanizations" of similar volumes already published by Egmont. Our final editions may look very different (and may not be identical to Egmont's equivalents inside, either)". January 28., 2008 Island at the Edge of Time is published in #5/2008 of the Scandinavian Weeklies.

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