Byron Erickson (born February 3, 1951, in
Tucson
, "(at the) base of the black ill
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Arizona
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) is an American editor and writer in the comic book industry. He works at
Egmont on
Disney comic books
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The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on, starting with ...
, and was formerly
Don Rosa
Keno Don Hugo Rosa (), known simply as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his Disney comics stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and other characters which Carl Barks created for Di ...
's editor.
Erickson began working at
Another Rainbow Publishing Another Rainbow Publishing is a company dedicated to the re-publication and greater recognition of the work of Carl Barks that was created in 1981 by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran. Its name references Barks's saying that there would be "always a ...
in 1983, and when they received the license to publish Disney comics in the United States under the name of
Gladstone Publishing, he became the editor. After Disney took over the license, Erickson left Gladstone Publishing for
First Comics
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as an editor for various comics. He later moved to
Denmark
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and joined
Egmont, first as editor and later as "creative leader," but he is still writing comics.
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1951 births
American comics writers
Living people
Disney comics writers
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