08/09/2025
Dear friends in Italy, France and Germany,
unfortunately, we have to let you know the sad news that for the first time ever, Don will have to cancel a European signing tour, and very last minute at that. His wife's health has been getting worse and worse very quickly recently (she's been having Alzheimer's for a few years now, but was recently diagnosed with stage four terminal cancer in addition to that), and while he made every effort to still be able to come and see you, it turned out over the weekend that it just doesn't work out this time as he won't be able to travel and leave his wife alone.
We know that this will hit many of you hard as you might have already booked hotels, train rides or flights just to see him, and we know that many of these costs will not be refundable. We are truly very sorry about this situation and were not expecting this news, but we ask for your kind understanding in these difficult times. If you've been following Don for a while, you'll know that he's never canceled ANY European tour in more than thirty years (and even in the US, he only canceled one single show when he himself was sick) and is always so much looking forward to meeting every single one of you. And he wouldn't cancel this time either if there was any possibility at all for him to come. Believe us that he feels very bad about disappointing you and is really devastated.
Please don't get mad at our friends from the signing venues like Palermo Comic Con, La Dimension Fantastique, Alfa BD and Comic Combo. They were as suprised by this as you and we were, and there's nothing they could have done to prevent this or inform you earlier as this all happened just this weekend while we were already packing and preparing the tour start.
We promise we'll make up for the canceled tour dates once Don is able to travel again, whenever that might be.
Thank you very much and once again, our sincerest apologies!
The Don Rosa tour team (Jano, Stefan and Don)
