Don Rosa's grandfather, Gioachino Rosa, lived in Maniago, a town at the foot of the Alps in Northern Italy, in the province of Pordenone.

In 1997 the Italian publishing house Editrice ComicArt published a lavish volume about Don Rosa's biography and work related to the Disney characters.

In 2011, Italian Disney fan forum papersera. net published Don Rosa: A Little Something Special ( edited by Italian Rosa fan Paolo Castagno ), a large folio format, bilingual ( Italian and English ) book about Rosa's life and work, containing interviews with Rosa and articles by many Italian and European Disney artists, Disney scholars, and established art critics commenting on Rosa's work and career, also including many exclusive, rare Rosa drawings and illustrations.

According to Don Rosa's timelines the Clan is known since 122 AD, when an, as of yet, unnamed member of the clan sold stone to the construction crew of Hadrian's wall.

This family tree is based on Don Rosa's McDuck Family Tree, and shows the relationship to the Duck family.

Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Quackly McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Roast McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

Sir Stuft McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

In Don Rosa's " A Letter from Home ", it's revealed that Fergus tried to find the Knight Templar treasure hidden in the castle McDuck by one of his ancestors, a Knight himself.

The character was later used by Don Rosa, and appears in three of twelve original chapters of Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Don Rosa's incarnation of Magica De Spell is, however, far more limited as she usually only uses magic through magical objects and in The Quest for Kalevala, Magica acknowledges that she can't use magic without a wand.

* Don Rosa's views on Magica De Spell

Adding it to the fact that Don Rosa's stories usually take place in the 1950s, it means it would be impossible for anyone to own a rand in such stories.

In comic writer Don Rosa's stories, Duckburg is located on the west coast of the United States, though other writers often leave the city's location more vaguely defined.

However, in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: " I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast ... but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city.

A map in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck portrays Calisota covering the part of California north of Sacramento.

Don Rosa has said that Scrooge had earned all the money in his bin by himself, but not only does the bin's size possibly contradict this idea, in Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, he said that Scrooge was traveling around the world, starting businesses and having the money sent home.

In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Keno D. Rosa ( which is Don Rosa's actual name ).

According to Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge first met The Beagle Boys in his Mississippi riverboat days, circa 1880.

Some of Don Rosa's stories feature seven Beagle Boys, but the prison tag of the seventh Beagle Boy is always obscured by something.

According to one of Don Rosa's stories, the Beagle Boys have been known by their prison numbers since their childhood, and they don't even know their real names themselves.

In Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree, Clinton is married to Gertrude Gadwall and their two children are Grandma Duck ( Elvira Coot ) and Casey Coot.

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

Since early childhood Don Rosa had been fascinated by Carl Barks ' stories about Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck.

As Don Rosa explained it, he was just "(...) turning that old Pertwillaby Papers adventure back into the story it originally was in my head, starring Scrooge, Donald, the nephews, and Flintheart Glomgold.

* The Don Rosa Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color Vol.

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a comic book story by Don Rosa about Scrooge McDuck.

In 1987 Don Rosa, a long-time fan of Carl Barks and personal friend of Mark Worden, started creating his own stories featuring Scrooge McDuck and his various associates.

Don Rosa used the castle in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Parts 1, 5, and 9, and in A Letter from Home / The Old Castle's Other Secret.

Sir Donald McDuck is mentioned in " The History of The Clan McDuck " by Don Rosa, a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it never got a place in the story at the end.

The character's story was later expanded by Don Rosa, and he appears among the McDucks in heaven in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Locksley McDuck is mentioned in " The History of The Clan McDuck " by Don Rosa, a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it never got a place in the story at the end.

She was created by Don Rosa and appears in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and on the Duck Family Tree.

The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks ' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch ( where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge ), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

In 1987 Keno Don Rosa created his first Scrooge McDuck story, " Son of the Sun ", first published in July 1987.

Because Scrooge officially meets Glomgold for the first time in ' The second richest Duck ' in 1956, Don Rosa makes sure Glomgold's name is never mentioned in his tale.

Don Rosa also revealed in at least two stories another thing that makes Flintheart a counterpart to Scrooge: the Number One Rand, the first coin Flintheart Glomgold ever earned ( or stole ).

However, in the Don Rosa story " His Majesty, McDuck " ( Uncle Scrooge Adventures # 14, Gladstone Aug. 1989 ) Scrooge gains a short-lived independence from the United States for Killmotor Hill, thus placing Duckburg within the U. S.

McDuck Castle in The Old Castle's Other Secret or A Letter From Home by Don Rosa.

Sir Simon McDuck is mentioned in A Letter From Home by Don Rosa.

Dingus McDuck, nicknamed " Dirty Dingus ", was created by Don Rosa for his Duck Family Tree and has not appeared in person.

According to Don Rosa, Seafoam McDuck and Hugh McDuck are the same character ; " Seafoam " is just a nickname.