Biographical note

Don Rosa is one of the world's most popular cartoonists. For over 20 years he kept up the duck universe of his idol Carl Barks with his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and the Beagle Boys Inc. He is adored for his detailed duck adventures. His biography The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck earned him immortality and an Eisner Award, the world's most prestigious comics prize. Alex Jakubowski was born in Berlin in 1970. He is passionate about collecting and reading comics. For his doctoral thesis he studied election campaign spots on German TV and has worked as a TV journalist in public broadcasting for more than 20 years. After five years as TV correspondent at ARD's capital studio in Berlin, he has returned to freelancing for ARD-aktuell in Frankfurt am Main, producing pieces for news formats like Tagesschau and Tagesthemen and for other programmes. He is also an external lecturer and teaches in adult education. Lois Lammerhuber is a photographer and publisher. His close collaboration with GEO magazine started in 1984, continues to this day and has greatly influenced his approach to photography. His pictures have been published in hundreds of books and magazines and earned him international awards, including three times the Graphis Photo Awards for the world's best photo report of the year. He joined the Art Directors Club New York in 1994. In 1996 he set up Edition Lammerhuber publishing house. In 2014 he received the Republic of Austria's Cross of Honour, First Class, for Science and Art.