The Pertwillaby Papers

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The Pertwillaby Papers
Author(s) Don Rosa
Illustrator(s) Don Rosa
Current status/scheduleConcluded
Launch date1971
End date1979
Genre(s) Adventure
Followed by The Adventures of Captain Kentucky

The Pertwillaby Papers is an adventure comic drawn by Donald Duck artist Don Rosa in the 1970s. The comic is about the adventures of Lancelot "Lance" Pertwillaby and his friends and colleagues around the world.

Contents

History

Rosa started drawing the comic in the Kentucky Kernel newspaper in 1971. At the time, it consisted of weekly four- or five-panel episodes. At first, the comic was a political satire, according to the wishes of the newspaper editor, but when the newspaper changed editors, the comic became an adventure series. In 1973, the comic was paused.

In 1976, Rosa continued drawing the comic from episode #128 onwards, for the fanzine Rocket's Blast Comicollector . He changed the comic so that it now consisted of about ten 8- to 12-panel pages per episode. A whole story consisted of five or six episodes. Rocket's Blast Comicollector included episodes #128 through #140, which comprised two whole stories and one which was left unfinished.

Rosa stopped drawing the comic in 1979, because he was not paid for it and had begun to get bored of it. In the early 1980s he still drew one episode, number #141, to his unfinished story, that wasn't published at that time.

Except for one story, Rosa re-used the basic storylines of his The Pertwillaby Papers stories in his Disney stories. The stories also include numerous scenes which can be found in his Duck comics.

After his eventful student years, Lancelot Pertwillaby continues his life career as Captain Kentucky.

Stories

Characters

The Pertwillaby Papers also includes many supporting characters, such as Lance's best friend and ladies' man Freddie Kegg and Professor Artemis Phoebus, in addition to the notable Martin Bormann. Each main character has a unique, personal speech bubble style.

Reprints

In 1981 Fantagraphics published the Pertwillaby Papers in their two volume series Don Rosa's Comics & Stories. [1]

The Don Rosa Archives 1 – The Pertwillaby Papers

A reprint of the whole series after the 1970s, including episode #141, was published 2001 in Norway and 2011 in Denmark (in english language). A special edition of the norwegian book was also made of the books, containing that book and the accompanying edition of Don Rosa's "Captain Kentucky" strips, with Don Rosa's signature and a poster, where Pertwillaby and Captain Kentucky meet each other for the first time. [2] The poster is also signed by Rosa and only 150 copies were made. Both books were also imported to Finland. [3]

The Don Rosa Classics

In October 2012 the german publisher Dani books released Don Rosa Classics: The Complete Pertwillaby Papers collecting the complete run of the comic in english, ISBN 978-3944077000. [4]

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References

  1. "Fantagraphics Confirms Don Rosa 'Donald Duck & Uncle Scrooge' Collections". comicsalliance.com. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  2. http://www.perunamaa.net/donrosa/images/special_edition.jpg [ bare URL image file ]
  3. "Don Rosa - Pertwillaby Papers".
  4. Rosa, Don (2012). The Complete Pertwillaby Papers. Dani Books. ISBN   978-3-944077-00-0. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2023.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)