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Van Horn, a California-born cartoonist living in British Columbia, recounts his career path from animation (co-owning Aesop Films) to creating the ten-issue Nervous Rex series for Blackthorne, and finally to writing and drawing Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories for Gladstone. He discusses his influences — Carl Barks, Chester Gould, George Herriman, and old radio comedy — and explains why he handles his own pencilling, inking, lettering, and coloring to maintain maximum creative control over the final printed product.

Erickson, editor-in-chief of Gladstone Publishing, discusses Gladstone's operations at a pivotal moment: Disney has reclaimed its comics license and will publish its own line, though Gladstone may continue with hardbound classic reprints. He explains the challenges of re-scripting foreign Disney comics (primarily poor-quality English scripts from Danish producer Gutenberghus), the creative diversity between writers Don Rosa and William Van Horn, and the difficulty of writing good Mickey Mouse stories versus Donald Duck stories.