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The Quest for Kalevala page 22

Artists: Don Rosa (All) , Jussi Karjalainen (Letterer)

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The Quest for Kalevala page 22 Comic Art

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Page 22, Fantagraphics' version

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Artwork Details

Title:	The Quest for Kalevala page 22
Artist:	Don Rosa (All)
Artist:	Jussi Karjalainen (Letterer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,717
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	8/26/2018
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Description

This page 22 is close with the page 20, the climax of the story. And once all is still happening in the same boat, I decided keeping the same design in the framing as with page 20. The only difference is that page 20, which is the most valuable page from the story, is having, by purpose, its understatement on its framing: no gold there ;-) Just like the original Gallen-Kallela's "The Defense of the Sampo". But here gold goes, once Sampo is there.
To get the idea about the framing, please see the previous art, the page 20 from this Quest of Kalevala -story.

This artwork should have went into some museum, as the complete story, when originals came for sale in an auction 2015. But things happened so that this most important Rosa's story, at least for Finnish readers, "broke down" around the globe, just like the original Sampo in Kalevala. Maybe it is the best in this way, so the artwork will bring joy for many comic art collectors. However, in a museum it would have been delighted more folks. I am feeling very happy to "rescue" few originals from the story.
To give perspective, when Finnish National Gallery (Ateneum) organised a small "Duckburg" exhibition, it attracted 245.000+ visitors just in 5 months! In this exhibition was only 12 works, mostly computer colorised drawings. Yes, read that again: National gallery presenting computer colorised pictures! This is what I call pop art ;-) Then just think and place into context this Rosa's original artwork for the story "The Quest for Kalevala".

Used "floating" hanging (by archival tape) to present the whole artwork, not hiding anything behind a passepartout, but showing how it left from Rosa's desk. There is still a small golden rim list, adding 5mm "safety margin", I mean air between the glass and the art, so the art will never touch the glass.

The story has been published already in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Island, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and US; in some countries several times. You can check details from here: https://inducks.org/story.php?c=D+99078
In Finnish this story has been printed in several editions, as "Sammon salaisuus". First time in the book: "Sammon salaisuus ja muita Don Rosan parhaita" (https://inducks.org/issue.php?c=fi/DR+1999#p007).
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.

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	Matti Eronen
Joined:	March 2017
Last Login:	January 2026
Website:	http://Illusi0n.com
Country:	FINLAND
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Alex P. McDuck
Member Since 2015

Posted on 8/27/2018

great D.U.C.K. artwork, congrats Matti :-)

William B.
Member Since 2004

Posted on 8/27/2018

wonderful page!

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