Awards
His work has won Rosa a good deal of recognition in the industry, including nominations for the Comics' Buyer's Guide Award for Favorite Writer in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Heidi MacDonald of Comics Buyer's Guide also mentioned Rosa's 1994 story Guardians of the Lost Library as "possibly the greatest comic book story of all time".
In 1995 he was awarded the Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story" for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. In 1997 he won an Eisner for "Best Artist/Writer - Humor Category".
His story The Black Knight GLORPS Again! has recently been nominated for the Eisner Award 2007 in the category Best Short Story. While The Prisoner of White Agony Creek, Rosa's latest Duck story to-date, was published in 2006, he has also been nominated for the 2007 Harvey Awards in five categories (more than any other creator for this year) for Uncle Scrooge comics: "Best Writer", "Best Artist", "Best Cartoonist", "Best Cover Artist", and "Special Award for Humor in Comics."
International "Best Cartoonist of the Year" awards include:
- Germany: International Grand Prize 2005 (Frankfurt Book Fair).
- Denmark: ORLA Award (DR Television Network).
- Sweden:
- Svenska Serieakademins (Swedish Comics Academy)
- Seriefrämjandets Unghunden (the Swedish Literary Society).
- Norway: Sproing Award (Norsk Tegneserieforum / Norwegian Comics Forum).
- Italy:
- Yambo Award (Lucca Comics Festival)
- Premio U Giancu Award (U Giancu & Rapallo Comics Festival).
- Spain: Haxtur Award (Gijon Comics Festival).
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