This 10 page story was one of the three test stories
Gorm Transgaaard and I did together to try and form a team
under the Egmont production umbrella in the early nineties.
We did not get accepted as such.
Still our project was fine we thought. At that time Gorm still
did very elaborate scribbles. This made him apply later
to become an artist. That plan did not work either.
However I could see, that a co-operation between the two of us
would have shown a distinct personality profile with an edge to it,
that would stand out in comparison with most other stuff
Egmont produced.
I was never paid for The Rollerscating Contest
nor was it published offficially. However I gave my old time
buddy Luca Boschi in Italy permission to print it for free
in his 100 page Paperino magazine.
He was at one time an assistant director, and I made clear,
that it was to be this print only, since I was never paid for it.
Therefore it had no code number in that printing.
Later some smart guy has invented a strange sounding ID
for it anyway, and from there other publishing houses
has ordered and printed it
– still without me getting my fee paid.