The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa (Disney, Carl Barks, Ducktales, Comics)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Dig deep into the history of Disney's Ducktales and the comics that paved the way for the modern television classic. We examine the comic book work of Carl Barks and Don Rosa, then take a deeper look at "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck," an Eisner award winning collection of some of the best Disney comics ever. This video also includes our first ever "breaking news" interruption!
Unfortunately, "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" is out of print, but Fantagraphics Press has been releasing archive editions of the Duck comics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa for several years.
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This was believe it or not, the book that inspired me to finally quit my job, pursue my passions and live my own adventure. So much great philosophy and wisdom here.
Amazing! Thanks for commenting!
Potentially it is also a how-to book showing you "how to become a greedy jerk alienating your family until you finally reconnect with your nephews in old age", so if use it as a guide, be selective about what lessons you take away from it.
Cenindo Well, my takeaway was that the big lesson is to NOT do that. Scrooges arc shows the value of family and relationships and how important it is. While Scrooge discovered this late in his life, we can learn from him now.
I wish there was a "super like" button...
what are those nuggets of wisdom and philosophy you got from it
I read all the stories when I was twelve. Today after 6 years I found the book and reading it again feels so nostalgic and intense, even though I’m still pretty young. For real, the impact this book has on me is so powerful that I feel the need to pursue my dreams. Masterpiece!
wait a sec, i've seen you in another vid!
@@lusmiipangya-6013 Hahah really? I don‘t comment often but I was high once and left random comments lol
@@JeffR_ I think it was in a simp parody vid
Carl's Barks did great groundwork for duck comics but Don Rosa perfected them
No book has had a bigger impact on me than this. Even more than Dostojevkij's Crime and Punishment. A beautiful and stunning book is what it is. I own the version with the extra stories that fills out some holes. For example the time between South-Africa and Australia and the time after he found the gold nugget in Klondike. Truly amazing.
All stories of Don Rosa, so not just the life and times, have been published the last 5 years in the Don Rosa Library by Fantagraphics, most of them are still available for order however volumes 1&2 are currently not available and go for big prices on e-bay! Fantagraphics have however announced that the volumes 1&2 will be reprinted soon. The whole library is worth the grab! Last two volumes are due October this year.
The 12 original chapters was given out with Donald Duck & Co in Norway between 1992 and 1994. Still remember it well, great story.
There are lots of artists who have done Duck comics besides Barks and Rosa. You can say that Barks invented the non-cartoonish "story telling" Duck stories (unlike the earlier strips made by Al Taliaferro) and had great success until he stopped in 66. At that point there were several others who had copied his style, and by the 70s Danish Egmont took over and employed Latin American and Spanish artists, of which there are plenty of hidden and overlooked grat artists like Daniel Branca. Even though a lot of these were artists who had other story writers there were also guys like Marco Rota who made long epic stories that became popular, also stories with "Duck continuity" like the birth of Donald Duck. Now Don Rosa has often been criticized for over focusing on continuity, since one of the trademarks of the Duck universe is that not everything hang together: Donald might not have the same house or address in all the stories: they are fit to each story. Don Rosa introduced the concept that the Duck universe had to make sense logically and chronologically. The problem for a lot of old Duck fans is that by doing that he passively implies that all other Duck stories are nullified and purely "fictional" (SIC). He would never make such a claim of course, but some Don Rosa fans have gone pretty far in thinking in terms of pro Rosa continuity, discrediting any story that denies to take part in such a way of thinking, saying that continuity isn't what the Duck universe is all about. Now the fame and success of Life and times of Scrooge McDuck is hard to argue against, yet there are good reasons why some might be more critical as well. I haven't even mentioned the entire Italian Duck universe which is completely a thing of its own.
I personally disregard all the Duck stories that aren't from Barks or Rosa. I consider the Rosa work to actually be canon because it is SO heavily reliant upon Barks. I don't like Strobel, Rota, or Scarpa. Barks was called The Good Duck Artist for a reason. Look in to Kim Weston and his works on Barks. They are astounding. I've gotten to spend a lot of time with Don and yes, he is a pretentious guy and yes he does look down his nose at Ducktales BUT if you're a legit Duck fan you will have great conversations with him. I'm gonna get to hang out with him again this weekend actually and can't wait. I have a whole Don Rosa art gallery hanging on my wall in my gameroom. I also got to see some original Barks art in Baltimore last year with Kim Weston. It was amazing!
I knew there was a reason I liked your videos!! (other than enjoying the content, of course) Fellow duck fan, rock on! :)
Great video! I am actually looking for recommendations. I love these old Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics and am looking for recommendations for comics similar to this. I am not a huge fan of Marvel/DC or any other superhuman/powers type comics and when I look online for comics I can only find info on that stuff.
I am looking for stuff like this:
Bloom County (heard good things)
Bone
Calvin and Hobbes
Donald Duck by Carl Barks
Garfield
Hate (heard good things)
Peanuts (enjoy, but would cost a fortune to own it all haha)
Pogo (heard good things want to get)
The Complete Far Side
Uncle Scrooge by Don Rosa
I must be missing some classics?!
I am interested in story, good characters, comedy and clever, I could care less about over the top violence, explosions, superpowers, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
Is the Donald Duck comic books the bestselling comics in the world.
Now they sell The Life and Timee of Uncle Scrooge in 2 volumes or a box set.
Just as a n FYI for folks interested in this Fantagraphics just released a new hardcover edition of this this month that has an MSRP of $29.99 (but is available for less on Amazon). I just picked up a copy today that I had preordered at my LCS, so for the moment, this is back in print and readily available.
Nice! Can you give us an Amazon link? I’m only aware of this upcoming collection coming in October. The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Vols. 1-2 Boxed Set (The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck) www.amazon.com/dp/1683962540/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_E6pUCbP2PSJ9H
@@CerealAtMidnight here's the one I got, it is Vol. 1 which I hadn't noticed www.amazon.com/Complete-Life-Times-Uncle-Scrooge/dp/1683961749/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=fantagraphics+Scrooge+McDuck&qid=1555636171&s=gateway&sr=8-3 and here's the link to Fantagaphics website listing for the book www.fantagraphics.com/life-and-timesvol1/ (I originally typed IDW and realized it was Fantagraphics afterwards as IDW is doing the Disney comics right now and I conflated the two publishers)
Okay, cool! Looks like they're collecting both volumes in a fancy slipcase one they're both out. I'm on IDW's press list and I didn't know a thing about this. Now I know why: because it's Fantagraphics!
I have been looking for this book forever.
But its so expensive, all I can find is the companion.
They should start printing them again sometime in the future.
Maybe for an aniversary?
I know, right? I don't understand why someone hasn't reprinted this again. When I realized it was out of print while editing this video, I couldn't believe it! It never crossed my mind that a book this famous would not be available. Blows my mind.
It's strange that they stopped printing them really, I assume they were selling well.
Maybe for a milestone anniversary. Guess everyone is just gonna have to wait and see.
These stories are collected in Fantagraphics Don Rosa Library Volumes 3 and 4. You can get those books for about $30 a piece or so on Amazon. The Fantagraphics versions are the best too because they come from Don's original colorings and everything.
Hey! I commented a while ago, but I had a question.
Do you happen to know the difference between the companion and the real one?
Yes! The companion contains other stories that feature a lot of the same characters. They supplement "The Life and Times" book. Basically, more back story.
Okay! I was just wondering, cause I thought it was something else.
Thanks for the help!
Don Rosa made chapters 1 to 12 in the early 90's, these were huge and very popular in Europe. This inspired Don Rosa to write and draw so called B chapters, they are combined in the Companion book and complement Life and Times.
I expect your video reviews of Disney's "The Black Hole" and "The Rocketeer" by year 2023!
Hey, at least both of those movies are still in print.
Cereal At Midnight It's not physical media but vudu has some nice HD versions of a lot of unavailable flicks like 20,000 Leagues...
Yeah, I've been holding off. I have the standard def DVD of 20,000 Leagues and I've been pretty happy with that until they put the movie on a Blu-ray. I'm confident that as soon as I buy the digital version on VUDU, they'll announce the Blu-ray.
Doh! Out of print! I was going to order it, then I saw what it is going for on ebay. oh well, maybe I'll find it for a good price at some point.
Yeah, for real. The lesson I learned with this video is "always check to make sure the thing you're talking about is available in case people want to check it out." Sorry!
No worries at all. It's still cool to hear about this none the less. I've been generally aware of the comics and the fact that they are the inspiration of Duck Tales (which i am a huge fan of), but for the most part have never really read any of them. Maybe this version will get another print run down the road. I don't care if it has a different cover or something, as long as I can read it. :)
I can't understand the idea of an Eisner-award winning book not being available, at least digitally. It looks like there were expanded reprints from Boom studios and now even those aren't in print any more. I can happily share that Fantagraphics Press is releasing the "Don Rosa Library" AND "Carl Barks Library" archive editions. Looks like they've been at it for quite some time. I'm putting links in the RUclips video description.
If you want to get The Life and Times they are ALL collected in the Don Rosa Library from Fantagraphics. They are in volumes 4 and 5. The Life and Times is a GREAT story BUT you should also know that they are not the "be all end all" of Don Rosa. Most of my favorite Don Rosa stories aren't even the ones in the Life and Times. Don is one of the most knowledgeable Barks fans in the world and ALL of his stories line up with Barks and sommmmmetimes he changes very minor details for coherency in the timeline because Barks really didn't care about continuity. If you've never read Barks and Rosa you have no idea what you're missing. I love the show, obviously, but the Barks and Rosa comics bury the show badly in terms of quality and truly nailing the characters. I've gotten to hang out with Don a LOT and learn a lot from him. Also I've gotten to hang out with guy named Kim Weston who is possibly the greatest Scrooge McDuck and Barks scholar in the world and he has an actual concordance of EVERY SINGLE CARL BARKS FACT YOU COULD EVER WANT. It is a mammoth book if you're a true Scrooge McDuck fan. But anyway if you want to read The Life and Times you can get the whole collection in Fantagraphics and Don himself told me it's the greatest interpretation of his work and I've even gotten to talk personally with the Fantagraphics people and they are big Rosa and Barks fanboys too. There is also a "Companion" to The Life and Times which fills in even MORE details of the Barks universe and that is also in The Life and Times. Hope you look in to this because Barks is the greatest storyteller ever and Rosa is a huge fanboy of his. STAY AWAY FROM ALL THE SCROOGE STORIES THAT ARE NOT DONE BY BARKS OR ROSA! ESPECIALLY TONY STROBEL STORIES!
hmm definitely American... otherwise he would have known the ongoing relationship with Disney in Europe since the end of the war. donald and his family and friends are much more popular here than in u.s.a. were they pretty much seised the comic industry in the late 1980s
lucky for European artists like me and others we live in Europe and the ducks are still as popular here today as they were in the 1950s
Yes, I'm American. And I'm also aware of the appeal of the Disney comics in Europe to this day. Talking about an American comic doesn't minimize the European comics. This was a spotlight on a book from my collection that I cherish by a creator who I value. It wasn't a history lesson in Disney's duck comics. Thanks for watching.
ps as an original 1990s ducky please don't compare ''the cannon'' to ducktales!! the disney tv industry is only triying to ripp us off, so a big thanks to disney so far!!!eh!eh! cough!!!
Don Rosa was a student of Carl Barks, whose work dates back to Walt’s era. And the Carl Barks cannon was absolutely a HUGE inspiration for Ducktales. Again, perspective.
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student? I think Mr rosa would disagree, he's a great fan of Mr barks all of us who ever held a pen professionally draw Donald saw Mr barks eh like a Beatles fan would see Paul McCartney.
to us DuckTales in the 80s was more a ripoff of barks work if you get the chance to meet don rosa again just ask him he's not impressed about the DuckTales thing!
I love it that you love the comics but steer clear of the Disney co all that's driving it is money and eh, money!