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Scrooge McDuck (The Quest For Kalevala)

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Scrooge McDuck (The Quest For Kalevala) Comic Art

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Title:	Scrooge McDuck (The Quest For Kalevala)
Artist:	Don Rosa (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Convention Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	895
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	6/24/2018
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Description

This artwork is from Baltimore Comic Con 2017, Don kindly made Scrooge in the spirit of "The Quest For Kalevala" -story.

This inked drawing is done in the very first book where this great Kalevala-story was published, globally. It was in Finnish, in "Sammon salaisuus ja muita Don Rosan parhaita" (https://inducks.org/issue.php?c=fi/DR+1999#p007).
This book, its first edition was published in November 10th 1999. Local foreign editions came later, Island as the 2nd on November 29th and Norway as 3rd in November 30th, 1999.
This Finnish first edition was awesome sales hit, and so far 12 editions has been done and over 100.000++ copies made since 1999. Remembering to scale into population of 5.5M inhabitants.
This original edition is also very important for Don Rosa collectors once it is the only way to get the original artwork, with correct lettering.
In Don Rosa Library and in the Finnish jubilee edition in 2017 for some reason original lettering was not there! I don�t understand why it was replaced by some standard computer font, which is not even looking that nice like the original lettering.
So, my advice, get your own copy in Finnish ;-) To say you have complete Don Rosa collection you need to have this book.

I will share a bit later examples of this, how original lettering was replaced with computer fonts. I wouldn�t call this change as an improvement. Even more strange, also wording was changed sometimes when original artwork was replaced by computer fonts.

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	Matti Eronen
Joined:	March 2017
Last Login:	September 2025
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Alex P. McDuck
Member Since 2015

Posted on 6/24/2018

wonderful Kalevala Scrooge, congrats Matti :-)

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