Squee!
Very few things get my fangirl senses reeling as much as the $crooge/Goldie relationship, so I'm literally squeeing out loud to have found this little article...
From: http://www.kentuckyliving.com/article.asp?articleid=1537&issueid=259
Scrooge McDuck's lost love
by: Robin Roenker
Out of the dozens of Scrooge comics that Don Rosa has drawn over the past 18 years or so, some stand out above the rest as his favorites. Three of these, Last Sled to Dawson, Hearts of the Yukon, and The Prisoner of White Agony Creek-his most recent comic, which will likely be published in Europe early next year-are related in that they take as their starting source the “lost love scenario” between Scrooge McDuck and Glittering Goldie.
Goldie, a dance hall girl in the Yukon, was first introduced by Carl Barks in his Back to the Klondike issue, published in the 1950s. In the original version of that issue, Barks had included a five-page flashback sequence that was omitted by the publisher, Rosa believes, because it was too risqué.
It wasn’t until the 1960s, as a comic collector, that Rosa saw a copy of the omitted flashback sequence-which included Scrooge’s kidnapping of Goldie and taking her as his prisoner to White Agony Creek to “live alone with him to show her how hard it is to earn the money she was trying to steal from him,” Rosa says.
“I still remember what a fabulous experience that was. It was like deleted footage from Citizen Kane or something,” he says.
Ever since then, Rosa has been intrigued with the notion of Scrooge and Goldie’s lost love. “When I did the Life of Scrooge, I couldn’t tell that same sequence (when Goldie and Scrooge met in Barks’ storyline), because it was in Barks’ story,” Rosa explains. “I could do the before and after, but I never wanted to do a story where Scrooge and Goldie interacted; they would only see each other from a distance…Otherwise, the lost love scenario would never have any appeal.”
Eventually, “as much as I loved these characters, there was no other story that I could tell” about them without having them meet, Rosa says. But then the idea struck him: he could tell the story about the missing month at White Agony Creek-the story that had been omitted from Barks’ earlier comic-and why they love each other so much.
“So that’s the story (told in The Prisoner of White Agony Creek) that I just finished,” he says. “And I don’t have any other stories left in me that I feel compelled to tell right now.”
Have I mentioned how much I CAN'T WAIT for September, when this story will finally be published in America?
EDIT: Google is my friend. I found this quote by Don Rosa from the DCML from last August...
Linkage
[Background: A reader compliments "The Old Castle's Other Secret/A Letter From Home", and asks if any editors had issues with the way the Holy Grail was treated in that story. Rosa says no, he left the Grail thing ambiguous on purpose and hasn't heard any fuss about it.]
Then quoth Rosa:
(But I still thought it [Letter From Home]
was sorta on the lame side as regards humor and action -- the story *I* like
is the one I finally sent in last week, "The Prisoner of White Agony Creek".
But I expect many or most readers will think *that's* the one that's sorta
lame.) (And there will be *more* obvious opportunities for "discretionary
decisions" in a few scenes in that one. Like when the snow melts off the
cabin roof. Ooooh, baby! But I tells 'em like I sees 'em.)
Oh. My. Gawd. ROTFLMAO!!! That's just beyond priceless. Snow melting off the roof? I'm dead. Dead, I tell you! Bwahahahaha!
EDIT #2: darksigma, is there anything interesting on this page? I don't speak Finnish. ^_^;
From: http://www.kentuckyliving.com/article.asp?articleid=1537&issueid=259
Scrooge McDuck's lost love
by: Robin Roenker
Out of the dozens of Scrooge comics that Don Rosa has drawn over the past 18 years or so, some stand out above the rest as his favorites. Three of these, Last Sled to Dawson, Hearts of the Yukon, and The Prisoner of White Agony Creek-his most recent comic, which will likely be published in Europe early next year-are related in that they take as their starting source the “lost love scenario” between Scrooge McDuck and Glittering Goldie.
Goldie, a dance hall girl in the Yukon, was first introduced by Carl Barks in his Back to the Klondike issue, published in the 1950s. In the original version of that issue, Barks had included a five-page flashback sequence that was omitted by the publisher, Rosa believes, because it was too risqué.
It wasn’t until the 1960s, as a comic collector, that Rosa saw a copy of the omitted flashback sequence-which included Scrooge’s kidnapping of Goldie and taking her as his prisoner to White Agony Creek to “live alone with him to show her how hard it is to earn the money she was trying to steal from him,” Rosa says.
“I still remember what a fabulous experience that was. It was like deleted footage from Citizen Kane or something,” he says.
Ever since then, Rosa has been intrigued with the notion of Scrooge and Goldie’s lost love. “When I did the Life of Scrooge, I couldn’t tell that same sequence (when Goldie and Scrooge met in Barks’ storyline), because it was in Barks’ story,” Rosa explains. “I could do the before and after, but I never wanted to do a story where Scrooge and Goldie interacted; they would only see each other from a distance…Otherwise, the lost love scenario would never have any appeal.”
Eventually, “as much as I loved these characters, there was no other story that I could tell” about them without having them meet, Rosa says. But then the idea struck him: he could tell the story about the missing month at White Agony Creek-the story that had been omitted from Barks’ earlier comic-and why they love each other so much.
“So that’s the story (told in The Prisoner of White Agony Creek) that I just finished,” he says. “And I don’t have any other stories left in me that I feel compelled to tell right now.”
Have I mentioned how much I CAN'T WAIT for September, when this story will finally be published in America?
EDIT: Google is my friend. I found this quote by Don Rosa from the DCML from last August...
Linkage
[Background: A reader compliments "The Old Castle's Other Secret/A Letter From Home", and asks if any editors had issues with the way the Holy Grail was treated in that story. Rosa says no, he left the Grail thing ambiguous on purpose and hasn't heard any fuss about it.]
Then quoth Rosa:
(But I still thought it [Letter From Home]
was sorta on the lame side as regards humor and action -- the story *I* like
is the one I finally sent in last week, "The Prisoner of White Agony Creek".
But I expect many or most readers will think *that's* the one that's sorta
lame.) (And there will be *more* obvious opportunities for "discretionary
decisions" in a few scenes in that one. Like when the snow melts off the
cabin roof. Ooooh, baby! But I tells 'em like I sees 'em.)
Oh. My. Gawd. ROTFLMAO!!! That's just beyond priceless. Snow melting off the roof? I'm dead. Dead, I tell you! Bwahahahaha!
EDIT #2: darksigma, is there anything interesting on this page? I don't speak Finnish. ^_^;