Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck Vol. 1: The Son of the Sun: The Don Rosa Library Vol. 1 Kindle & comiXology

Me and my children of 3, Luke who is 10, Lily who is 7 and Samantha who is 4 simply adore Don's duck comics. We are a "Read Aloud" family and we have a family tradition of reading novels and comics together at dinner or sitting on the floor in the living room or in the hallway. These are our favorite to read and snuggle together with. Seriously, these are some of the greatest adventures, cultures, morality tales, economics and comedy I have ever encountered. Add to all of this Don's immense talent to illustrate the most minute of things and you have one of the most all-time greatest origins for an author and illustrator I can think of. This doesn't even mention his captivating pacing and jaw dropping ability to make climax story telling both boggle your mind as well as teach you even basic things like physics and even problem solving for how to escape certain situations. If the ducks can think of it, so can you. Don's duck stories are on par with any other modern and historical comics, they are mesmorizing. Yes, thats the word. His stories, settings, characters, plots and motivations mesmorize you into never putting some of these masterpieces down. If this is merely Vol 1. how grand must all the other stories be as well?!?!

Not liking a Don Rosa “Uncle Scrooge” story is like not liking music by The Beatles, or not liking ice cream, or Christmas Eve... and “The Son Of The Sun” is probably his best-known, most popular work. I used to own three copies of the Gladstone issue it first appeared in, and was almost catatonic from depression when I had to sell my collection: but thanks to treasuries like this, I’m able to enjoy almost everything I owned all over again ~ the Carl Barks & Don Rosa Libraries are real gold for collectors of comics, or great books in general. Perfect for reading by the fireplace on a cold night, each volume is filled with adventures both children and adults will fall in love with. And a Thank you to Labyrinth Books~

If you don't know comic book legends, Carl Barks was the GOOD artist back in the 40s (-70s) who was beloved but unknown to Duck fans. He gave us the out of cartoon Donald with slapstick and great adventures. He created Uncle Scrooge McDuck and even more adventures! He was THE artist/writer of the Ducks. Don Rosa is the Heir to that Throne, creating many great stories about and even expanding on the stories of Barks in the 80's-2000's.Having seen Don recently he said he was looking forward to the volumes so that he could have all his stories in English in collected volumes. I decided that what works for Don works for me and I picked up the first two volumes. I have some of these in comics and others in graphic novels but this looks to be a good way to keep them. The stories go in order and they are a lot of fun. If you like good adventures with humor, Barks and Rosa have it covered. If you like humor, they have it covered. Rosa is a MASTER story teller. PERIOD.The printing to me is very good, colors look great and the stories are larger than normal with good boundaries. You won't miss part of the story or art because it is stuck in the binding of the book. Don does a short intro to the book and then has a lengthy afterward where he discusses himself, the stories and shares thought on the various covers he did for Gladstone and others. Nice cover gallery. You can buy other volumes and the two volume sets come with a slipcase but those volumes are WAY overpriced for me. I will look to get the double sets when they originally come out.

This is a collection of the first two years or so of Don Rosa's Disney duck comics. For those who are unfamiliar, Don Rosa is, along with Carl Barks (creator of Uncle Scrooge) and Floyd Gottfriedson (artist of the 1930s and 1940s Mickey Mouse newspaper comics), one of the greatest of the Disney comic book/strip artists.The Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comic books, especially those written by Barks and Rosa, are very different than the Disney cartoons. Donald, Scrooge, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie presented here are resourceful adventurers and have enormously more charcterization than the one joke cartoon versions. While these stories were originally written for children, they never talk down to them, and are fairly sophisticated in plotting and vocabulary. These are great adventure stories (and some joke/gags) that happen to feature talking ducks.Don Rosa is a fabulous artist, and while in these early stories his art isn't as refined as it became later, it's still pretty darned good. Mr Rosa is also a fabulous storyteller, and he takes great pains to keep his stories consistent with each other and with Carl Barks' stories as well. Barks and Rosa's Duck world is consistent and vastly detailed. This is some good comic book work and it is a shame that too often these comics are dismissed as kid stuff, unfairly.The book is up to the usual Fantagraphics standard, a beautiful, slightly oversized hardcover with commentary on each story by Mr. Rosa himself. The production values are terrific, the colors are bright, bold, and clean, and the level of detail in the art is obvious.We Duck fans have been waiting a long time for a complete collection of Don Rosa's work, much of which wasn't published in the United States, and given the quality of this volume, it was worth the wait.It is over all an amazing collection of an amazing artist and I'm waiting eagerly for the remaining volumes in the series (and the remaining Carl Barks books, also from Fantagraphics)!

I was hesitant.....could anyone come close to Carl Barks?Surely not possible.But eventually I plunged,and bought volume one of Don Rosa's work.And I wasn't disappointed,thankfully.This continuation of the greatest heritage of comics works does a good job of continuing the legacy of the great Carl.I grew up reading about Scrooge and Donald,and have never lost my taste for them,never will,and now I can enjoy more of their adventures,albeit by another hand.Suitable for kids of all ages,be you 5 or 500(I;m not quite Methusalah---yet!) a very welcome discovery for me.Happy hours ahead!

The Don Rosa Library is the third installment in Fantagraphics' series of Disney books. The previous series (which are both still running) - the Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks libraries - have been living up to everything I could possibly hope for and the Don Rosa Library is no exception.Don Rosa was active making Disney comics between 1987 and 2006 and this volume covers his first year of comics, 1987-1988. As a Disney comics author he has both been highly praised but is also somewhat controversial. His writing is really pushing the boundaries for Disney comics, both in emotional depth and subject matter. His art is highly distinctive and very "dirty" compared to other Disney artists (often compared to Robert Crumb).The most well-known story in this volume is probably "The Son of the Sun" from July 1987, which was his first official Disney story. This is a classic Barksian treasure hunt which takes the ducks back to the Andes (not to Plain Awful though but you'll find them going there in the next volume). My favourite is however "Last Sled to Dawson" which is essentially a sequel to Barks' "Back to the Klondike" (1953). It also marks Rosa's first foray into Scrooge's past with a lenghty flashback sequence of about seven pages.The third longer story in this volume is "Cash Flow" which is a good old Scrooge-versus-the-Beagle-Boys story. This volume also contains several shorter stories in the Barks 10-pager mold which is especially interesting considering that Rosa almost stopped doing these type of stories later in his career.In addition to the comics, the book also contains extensive writings on the stories and Don Rosa, all written by Rosa himself epecially for this publication.And more Don Rosa volumes is coming up and it will only get better! The second volume is coming up soon. And if this series like other two will be published twice annually, 2015 will be an amazing year for Rosa fans with the publication of volume 3 with stories such as "Return to Xanadu" and "War of the Wendigo"... and not to mention the fourth volume which will contain the first stories from Rosa's magnum opus, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

While it does not contain Rosa's best efforts, the three long stories in this volume are absolute classics, "Cash Flow" being my favorite for its physics-bending sci-fi theme. The inclusion of fairly extensive supplemental material is a welcome addition. Any comic fan should jump at the chance of owning Rosa's collected works in its native language. Forget about Ducktales, this is the REAL Duckburg.

Don Rosa also rules; great adventures

If you love the Duck family these are just essential. I can't beliece i just herd about these 2 series, from Carl and Don. Fortunetly they were all still in stock. Buy them!