I grew up with Scrooge having a Scottish accent in the animated stuff, but I don't feel there's any indication of an accent in Barks or Rosa's comics. Scrooge is a very old fella and he left Scotland when he was very young, so he would probably have only the faintest hint of a Scottish accent (if that).
Bill Thompson is credited as portraying Uncle Scrooge in the short "Scrooge McDuck and Money", his first animated appearance. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck_and_Money)
You can check the accent here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAFSrKqIKdc
Last edited by shaxper; 06-23-2014 at 11:33 AM.
I picked up three Disney comics at an estate sale over the weekend, and it turns out that all three have Barks stories!
WDC&S #126 has "A Financial Fable"
WDC&S #203 has "Special Delivery"
Donald Duck #26 has "Trick or Treat" and "Hobblin' Goblins" - 32 pages of Barks!
The latter two are coverless, but I'm not complaining - these three cost $3 total.
Favorite Scrooge stories?
A Poor Old Man
Back to the Klondike
The Money Well
The Menehune Mystery
The Oddball Oddyssey
The Doom Diamond
The Cattle King
The Isle of Golden Geese
King Scrooge the First
Favorite long Donald adventures?
The Sherrif of Bullet Valley
Dangerous Disguise
Frozen Gold
Pawns of the Loup Garou
In Ancient Persia
Darkest Africa
The Pixilated Parrot
The Secret of Hondorica
The Gilded Man
I'm this close to getting the first Don Rosa volume... but I kinda wanna wait for slipcase! And if I get the slipcase I'll have to wait for the slipcase for all subsequent volumes for the next five years!
Yeah, I know: first world problems.
I take it you don't want to hear then that it's awesome, do you?
Seriously though, while Rosa's not as great an artist as Barks, his timing when it comes to jokes is brilliant. I found myself laughing out loud so many times when I read the book. I would've preferred the slipcase as well, but I just couldn't wait.
Especially the little details he's hiding in the panels. When I re-read his stories as an adult, they were a lot better than I remembered them. To a certain extent because I couldn't comprehend some of the jokes or because things got lost in translation.
Don is heading for a signing tour in Europe and I'll be seeing him in two weeks, I hope I can get another sketch from him.
"Tell me there's something better. Go ahead, try."
I'd actually never read anything by him. I read Disney when I was a kid, in the early 80s, so before Rosa started to draw the Ducks. But having bought all the Barks books by Fantagraphics and thoroughly enjoying them (why only two volumes per year?), I trusted FB with the Rosa books and blind bought it. Now I'm definitely on board for every other volume.
Oh, and a sketch in one of these volumes would be cool.