Roy Thomas, is, honestly, in my opinion, the greatest of all Conan writers. Robert E. Howard gave the character life, but Roy Thomas added something to him, a certain humanity and reluctant nobility that really made me fall in love with the character.
Not only popular in Europe I'm Moroccan and uncle Scrooge comics are very well sold here in french language I'm 23 yo now and i remember reading them since i was 6. I have full drawers of these comics that i still read whenever i feel like it Don Rosa's comics were always my favorites because i rlly enjoyed the historical trasure hunts. Such an exceptional artist
I probably read a billion Roy Thomas stories back when I wasn't looking at the credits. I started noticing his name on the Justice Society stories when I was in High School and College. One of my favorites!
I’m reading the Conan Marvel Years first 3 Omnibus and it has a lot of articles and news by Roy as he was getting Conan together as a series. He wrote over 200 issues of Conan not counting Savage Sword, etc. Amazing. .
only a decade or so for donald to end up in public domain and then artists can get payed for composition and story yup! the figures may be free then but work is still work and publishers will have to pay up!
Wait, you mean they aren't paid now? Or u mean they'll (eventually) get copyright to their work using these "public" characters? Sorry I kinda lost it at some point.
Can't see why they call Don Rosa an "elitist", he has a required taste and isn't into a lot of other stuff, but he doesn't call anything "garbage" and is only stating what he personally likes.
Wonderful interview! I was never a big Conan fan, but the background is interesting. I quite liked Roy's work on Thor... bringing in Ragnarok -- they should use these classic story arcs for the films... and give Mr. Thomas some credit and $$$'s
If You mean who will build on Rosa's stories like Rosa built on Barks, I would name Marco Gervasio and Arild Midthun (both among my favorites current authors)
I think Rosa carries Barks " torch very well, but he has a rather snobbish view of superhero comics. I love both funny animals, as. well as superhero comics.
I totally agree with him superheroes are trash, but I was a bit taken aback that he dumped on gottfredson, whose art is incredible, beyond Barks. Clearly Rosa is more of a story guy.
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Love him or hate him as a person, he's the second greatest Duck comic artist ever. I might put him at second greatest Disney comic artist, but Gottfredson is just so good, too. And I'm not a Mickey guy. I have a lot of opinions on this subject as someone who grew up with the Gladstone/Disney comics of the late 80's and early 90's. But as much of an asshole as Keno Don Rosa is reputed to be, he's a pretty great artist and storyteller. Especially his early stuff.
