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title: Donald Duck universe

text: and keeps it on a pillow under glass because of its sentimental value. Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Gladstone Gander among many others think it is really a lucky charm, but Scrooge himself rejects any claims beyond sentimentality. Donald Duck and his maternal uncle Scrooge McDuck received nearly equal exposure in comics. Other primary characters include Donald's three young nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and girlfriend Daisy Duck. Several secondary characters have also achieved star status in certain publications, such as Grandma Duck, Donald Duck's grandmother; Gladstone Gander, Donald Duck's incredibly lucky cousin; Gyro Gearloose, an inventor who

title: The Duck Who Never Was

text: Bin to use the telephone where he finds his Grandma who tells him that she sold the farm to Gyro because she could not run it alone (Gus Goose never worked for her) and that Daisy Duck bought this building from Scrooge years ago to use it as her printing plant: She is now a wealthy novelist, having started writing romance novels to fill her lonely life. A haggard Daisy appears, looking like a diva wearing tons of makeup. She throws Donald outside (pummeling him with empty bottles, subtly suggesting that in this reality, she has become an alcoholic). Donald

title: Donald Duck

text: series in 1937 starting with "Don Donald". These films introduced Donald's love interest Daisy Duck and often included his three nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. After the 1956 film "Chips Ahoy", Donald appeared primarily in educational films before eventually returning to theatrical animation in "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983). His most recent appearance in a theatrical film was 1999's "Fantasia 2000". Donald has also appeared in direct-to-video features such as "" (2004), television series such as "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" (2006–2016), and video games such as "QuackShot" (1991). Beyond animation, Donald is primarily known for his appearances in comics. Donald was most

title: Donald Duck

text: also minted the classic "Mickey, Donald, and Goofy" comedy in 1935, with the cartoon "Mickey's Service Station". In 1936, Donald was redesigned to be a bit fuller, rounder, and cuter, the first to feature this design was the cartoon "Moving Day". He also began starring in solo cartoons, the first of which was January 9, 1937, Ben Sharpsteen cartoon, "Don Donald". This short also introduced a love interest of Donald's, "Donna Duck", who evolved into Daisy Duck. Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, would make their first animated appearance a year later in the April 15, 1938, film, "Donald's Nephews",

title: Donald Duck universe

text: organized by a company producing oolated squiggs, where the grand prize was an ocean liner cruise. Donald won the grand prize and Gladstone won a year's supply of oolated squiggs. Donald Duck universe The Donald Duck universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting of stories involving Disney cartoon character Donald Duck, as well as Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Scrooge McDuck, and many other characters. The world is a part of the Mickey Mouse universe, but is more detailed. Life in the Donald Duck universe centers on the city of Duckburg, usually located in the fictional

title: Donald Duck universe

text: Donald Duck universe The Donald Duck universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting of stories involving Disney cartoon character Donald Duck, as well as Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Scrooge McDuck, and many other characters. The world is a part of the Mickey Mouse universe, but is more detailed. Life in the Donald Duck universe centers on the city of Duckburg, usually located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota, analogous to Northern California. The world also incorporates several other real and fictional locations, as well as historical figures and a fictional timeline, which is followed

title: Daisy Duck

text: Daisy Duck Daisy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1940 by Walt Disney Productions as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. Like Donald, Daisy is an anthropomorphic white duck, but has large eyelashes and ruffled tail feathers to suggest a skirt. She is often seen wearing a hair bow, blouse, and heeled shoes. Daisy usually shows a strong affinity towards Donald, although she is often characterized as being more sophisticated than him. Daisy was introduced in the short film "Mr. Duck Steps Out" (1940) and was incorporated into Donald's comic stories several months later. She appeared in 11 short films

title: Daisy Duck

text: nearby pirate. Daisy is also one the eight playable racers in the GBA game Disney Kart Circuit Tour. Like Minnie Mouse and Pluto(Disney) she is a lightweight character. In the Wii video game "Dance Dance Revolution Disney Grooves", Daisy Duck appears as one of the random backup dancers if you are playing with 1 or 2 players. Daisy runs the Daisy Gardens neighborhood in "Disney's Toontown Online". Daisy Duck Daisy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1940 by Walt Disney Productions as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. Like Donald, Daisy is an anthropomorphic white duck, but has large eyelashes

title: Duck family (Disney)

text: "Jog Tunnel", and then his girlfriend Daisy Duck reveals who is Dudly Duck through the newspaper where she works as reporter. A reporter rival of Daisy ends up discovering that Dudly is related to Donald, who in turn becomes unpopular too. Dudly appears in a Brazilian comic story where Fethry Duck works as reporter of Scrooge's newspaper, the "Duckburg Chronicle", and he intends to interview Dudly, who is returning to Duckburg. He also had a cameo appearance in another Brazilian comic story where Gyro Gearloose is called by the Mayor of Duckburg (a "dogface" version) to fix a sinking building

title: Duck family (Disney)

text: the son of Quackmore and Hortense Duck, and the most well-known member of the family. His girlfriend is Daisy Duck. He does not have any children of his own, but he is very close with his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. In some stories Donald is the triplet's legal guardian, such as in the 1942 film "The New Spirit" in which Donald lists the boys as dependants on his income tax form. Della Duck (called Dumbella in "Donald's Nephews"; born 1920) is the mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie. She was first described as Donald's cousin, but was later Donald's

title: The Duck Who Never Was

text: The Duck Who Never Was The Duck Who Never Was is a Disney comic written and drawn by Don Rosa. It was written to celebrate Donald Duck's sixtieth anniversary. It is Donald Duck's birthday, but he becomes depressed when he discovers that his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, forgot his birthday. Donald then applies for a job as a museum janitor, but his application form is turned upside down so that he is mistaken for sixty years old, an age at which the job isn't available. While walking out of the museum, Donald is hit by a magic urn and

title: The Duck Who Never Was

text: given his job back. The plot is inspired by the 1946 movie classic It's a Wonderful Life, a title that is repeatedly alluded to in the dialogue. The Duck Who Never Was The Duck Who Never Was is a Disney comic written and drawn by Don Rosa. It was written to celebrate Donald Duck's sixtieth anniversary. It is Donald Duck's birthday, but he becomes depressed when he discovers that his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, forgot his birthday. Donald then applies for a job as a museum janitor, but his application form is turned upside down so that he is

title: Donald Duck

text: artist Shiro Amano worked with Donald on the graphic novel "Kingdom Hearts" based on the Disney-Square Enix video game. Donald Duck has a slightly different character abroad. Donald Duck ("Kalle Anka" in Sweden, "Anders And" in Denmark, "Andrés Önd" in Iceland, "Donald Duck" in Norway, and "Aku Ankka" in Finland) is a very popular character in Nordic countries. In the mid-1930s, Robert S. Hartman, a German who served as a representative of Walt Disney, visited Sweden to supervise the merchandise distribution of Sagokonst (The Art of Fables). Hartman found a studio called L'Ateljé Dekoratör, which produced illustrated cards that were

title: Donald Duck

text: is the central character. This does not include comic books or activity books such as coloring books. Donald Duck Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in "TV Guide"s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of

title: Donald Duck

text: Donald Duck Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in "TV Guide"s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character, and is

title: Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers

text: Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers (known as Donald Duck: Quack Attack in Europe) is a platform game developed and published by Ubi Soft for various consoles and Windows-based personal computers. A different game with the same title was released for the Game Boy Color, as well as on Game Boy Advance, the latter being given the title "Donald Duck Advance". The game's reception was mixed, with reviewers praising the music, backgrounds, and animations, but criticizing the short length and the fact that it is mostly for a younger audience. "Goin' Quackers"s gameplay is very similar to that

title: Donald "Duck" Dunn

text: Donald "Duck" Dunn Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012) was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records. At Stax, Dunn played on thousands of records, including hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Elvis Presley and many others. In 1992, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s.

title: Donald Duck

text: of world politics". Finnish voters placing protest votes typically write "Donald Duck" as the candidate. In Sweden voters often voted for Donald Duck or the Donald Duck Party as a nonexistent candidate until a 2006 change in voting laws, which prohibited voting for nonexistent candidates. In a twenty-year span, Donald won enough votes to be, in theory, Sweden's ninth-most popular political organization. In 1985 Donald received 291 votes in an election for the Parliament of Sweden. By 1978, within Finland, there was debate over the morality of Donald Duck. Matti Holopainen jokingly criticized Donald for living with Daisy while not

title: The Duck Who Never Was

text: the birthday genie appears and offers him a wish. Donald does not believe the genie and inadvertently wishes that he were never born, a wish that the genie grants him. It only gradually dawns on Donald that he has been abruptly transported to an alternate reality: the world as it would be if he had never existed. When Donald gets out of the museum he finds the street damaged and his car gone. He sees Grandma Duck's car, although it is occupied not by Grandma Duck but by Gyro Gearloose. Donald asks him what he is doing in Grandma Duck's

title: Donald Duck Adventures

text: Comics published the title from 1990 to 1993, this one being the only one of the "new" Disney comic books to survive the company's comic implosion in 1991. They started a new numbering, issues #1-38. Gemstone Publishing published its own series of "Donald Duck Adventures", this one as a digest size graphic novel alongside "Mickey Mouse Adventures". These 128-page comics were sized 5" × 7½", and started a new numbering yet again, #1-#21. This "Donald Duck Adventures" was canceled in December 2006. Donald Duck Adventures Donald Duck Adventures was a comic book series featuring the adventures of Donald Duck and

title: Donald "Duck" Dunn

text: Jr., were given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award for their contributions to popular music. In 2017 Dunn was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Bass Player Magazine for his contributions to "the art, craft, and profession of bass playing." Donald "Duck" Dunn Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012) was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records. At Stax, Dunn played on thousands of records, including hits by Otis Redding, Sam &

title: Donald Duck talk

text: Donald Duck talk Donald Duck talk, formally called buccal speech, is an alaryngeal form of vocalization which uses the inner cheek to produce sound rather than the larynx. The speech is most closely associated with the Disney cartoon character Donald Duck whose voice was created by Clarence Nash, who performed it from 1934 to 1984. Nash discovered buccal speech while trying to mimic his pet goat Mary. In his days before Disney, Nash performed in vaudeville shows where he often spoke in his "nervous baby goat" voice. Later when he auditioned at Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney interpreted Nash's voice

title: Donald Duck and the Gorilla

text: Donald Duck and the Gorilla Donald Duck and the Gorilla is a Donald Duck short adventure disaster and monster film which was originally released in 1944. It stars Donald Duck along with his three nephews; Huey, Dewey and Louie and Ajax, the killer gorilla. The 1930 Mickey Mouse cartoon "The Gorilla Mystery" has a similar plot involving a gorilla named Beppo who captures Minnie Mouse. On a stormy night, Donald and his nephews overhear the radio announcer, Breckenridge, notify the listeners that a mountain gorilla named Ajax has escaped from the city zoo. The nephews pale with fright, and Donald

title: Donald Duck

text: "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold". The new publisher meant new illustrators, however, Carl Barks and Jack Hannah would later repeat the treasure-hunting theme in many more stories. Barks soon took over the major development of the duck as both writer and illustrator. Under his pen, Donald became more adventurous, less temperamental and more eloquent. Pete was the only other major character from the "Mickey Mouse" comic strip to feature in Barks' new Donald Duck universe. Barks placed Donald in the city of Duckburg, which he populated with a host of supporting players, including Neighbor Jones (1944), Uncle Scrooge McDuck (1947),

title: Donald Duck Presents

text: part of a six-volume set which also each featured an episode of "Good Morning, Mickey!", "Welcome to Pooh Corner", "The Mouse Factory" and "Mousercise". Unlike the stateside version of "Donald Duck Presents", however, there were no cartoon shorts released; that position was filled by "Good Morning, Mickey!". Instead, it contained different Disney featurettes. Donald Duck Presents Donald Duck Presents is a television series that aired on The Disney Channel beginning in 1983 and which featured Disney animated shorts. Although Donald Duck shorts were the primary programming, additional cartoons featuring Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Pluto, as well as Silly

title: Donald Duck Adventures

text: Donald Duck Adventures Donald Duck Adventures was a comic book series featuring the adventures of Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. Gladstone Publishing published 48 issues. The first 20 were published from 1987 to 1990 (#1-#20), and then the last 28 were published from 1993 to early 1998 (#21-#48), whereas Gladstone II continued the numbering of Gladstone I, ignoring the intermediate numbering of Disney Comics. The series contained original material alongside reprints from older Donald Duck strips from the 1930s and 1940s, as well as more modern material from the King syndicated strip from the 1980s. Disney

title: Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold

text: Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" is a comic book story starring Donald Duck that was originally printed in "Four Color" #9 (the first "Four Color" issue titled "Donald Duck") in October 1942. The script was by Bob Karp and illustrated by Carl Barks and Jack Hannah. The story is significant for launching the first American Donald Duck adventure comic series. The first Donald Duck adventure comics had so far only appeared in Italy, in the first issue of the Italian Disney comics magazine "Paperino" by Federico Pedrocchi. In this story Donald and his nephews Huey,

title: Donald Duck (comic strip)

text: Donald Duck (comic strip) Donald Duck is an American comic strip by The Walt Disney Company starring Donald Duck. The first "Donald Duck" strip debuted in American newspapers on the 7th of February, 1938. Soon after, on the 10th of December in 1939, Walt Disney expanded the title to also be a Sunday strip feature in conjunction with the daily strip publication. Writer Bob Karp and artist Al Taliaferro worked together on the strip for more than 30 years. "Donald Duck" was distributed by King Features Syndicate. Disney artist Al Taliaferro came up with the idea of a solo comic

title: Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck

text: the game. If a player loses three lives the game is over. Donald Duck is beckoned by his uncle Scrooge McDuck from a curse which has puffed him up into a floating balloon. In 1999 Majesco re-released this game, under license from Sega, along with re-releasing the Game Gear system itself and several other titles in the United States. These games are sometimes found in discount bins or dollar shops, since Majesco has shifted focus to new game franchises. Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck, released in Japan as , is a Sega Master

title: Don Donald

text: "Donald Duck" series, and is the first to feature Donald as the primary starring character. The film also introduces a love interest for Donald. Donald Duck rides a donkey through the Mexican desert playing a guitar and wearing a sombrero on his way to the house of his girlfriend, Donna Duck. Donna dances the Mexican Hat Dance and eventually lands on Donald's donkey who throws her off his back. Donald laughs causing Donna to get angry. She knocks Donald into a fountain, breaks his guitar over his head, and storms back inside the house. Back outside, the donkey laughs at

title: Donald Duck

text: and Taliaferro also introduced several members of Donald's supporting cast, including his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. In 1937, an Italian publisher named Mondadori created the first Donald Duck story intended specifically for comic books. The eighteen-page story, written by Federico Pedrocchi, is the first to feature Donald as an adventurer rather than simply a comedic character. Fleetway in England also began publishing comic-book stories featuring the duck. A daily "Donald Duck" comic strip drawn by Taliaferro and written by Bob Karp began running in the United States on February 2, 1938; the Sunday strip began the following year. Taliaferro

title: Donald Duck

text: famously drawn by Al Taliaferro, Carl Barks, and Don Rosa. Barks, in particular, is credited for greatly expanding the "Donald Duck universe", the world in which Donald lives, and creating many additional characters such as Donald's rich uncle Scrooge McDuck. Donald has been a very popular character in Europe, particularly in Nordic countries where his weekly magazine "" was the most popular comics publication from the 1950s to 2009. Donald is also very popular in Italy, where he is major character in many comics in which his juvenile version Paperino Paperotto and his superhero alter-ego "Paperinik" ("Duck Avenger" in the

title: Donald Duck (orange juice)

text: Wales, until 1998, when the cooperative decided to remove the Donald Duck logo as part of its name change and rebranding. In 1987 the brand was the subject of a lawsuit between Citrus World and its rival Tropicana Products, which alleged that the Donald Duck "Fresh 'N Natural" brand was being marketed deceptively as fresh squeezed juice when it was actually made from concentrate. Donald Duck (orange juice) Donald Duck is the name of a brand of frozen and refrigerated orange juice by the Florida's Natural Growers agricultural cooperative, which was known as Citrus World from 1969 to 1998, and

title: Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck

text: Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck, released in Japan as , is a Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear title originally released in 1993 It is a Disney-licensed game developed by Sega. This game is a platform game reminiscent of "Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse", as both have similar gameplay elements. Donald's chief means of attack are kicking blocks (some of which contain diamonds or ice cream cones) and consuming chili peppers, which temporarily enable Donald to plow through all enemies at high speed. The player can choose map locations to begin

title: Donald Duck

text: In the first, he meets his parrot pal José Carioca. The second film was "The Three Caballeros", in which he meets his rooster friend Panchito. Several decades after the war, on account of the fact that Donald was never officially separated from service in either his animated shorts or his comic strips- and as part of Donald's 50th Birthday celebrations- the U.S. Army retired Donald Duck from active duty as a "Buck Sergeant" (i.e. "Buck Sergeant Duck") in a special ceremony and parade in Torrance, CA in 1984. Many of Donald's films made after the war recast the duck as

title: Donald Duck (American comic book)

text: Donald Duck (American comic book) Donald Duck is an American comic book magazine starring the Disney character Donald Duck and published by various publishers since 1952. The first issue was released in November 1952, but the numeration started with #26 because the previous "Four Color" issues titled "Donald Duck", released between October 1942 ("Four Color" #9) and September 1952 ("Four Color" #422), were retroactively treated as part of the series: the numbering was the result of a mistake, as "Four Color" #422 was actually the 28th "Four Color" issue titled "Donald Duck". From 2003 to 2011, the comic was renamed

title: Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold

text: assignment was that it was a more story related project. We were doing all the Donald Duck stories for the shorts and doing all the story sketches at the time so I'm just guessing that they probably felt we could work out this story as well, maybe even add in a few touches to help it flow properly." Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" is a comic book story starring Donald Duck that was originally printed in "Four Color" #9 (the first "Four Color" issue titled "Donald Duck") in October 1942. The script was by Bob

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: 1936, and December 12, 1937. At the time, Ted Osborne was credited as writer and Al Taliaferro as artist and inker. The duo turned Donald from a countryman to a city dweller. They also introduced the first members of The Duck family other than Donald himself, namely Donald's identical triplet nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, who debuted on October 17, 1937. The triplets were sent to spend some time with him as guests while their father recovered at the hospital from their latest prank. Nevertheless, Donald ended up serving as their adoptive parent. At this time, the first Donald Duck

title: Donald Duck (orange juice)

text: Donald Duck (orange juice) Donald Duck is the name of a brand of frozen and refrigerated orange juice by the Florida's Natural Growers agricultural cooperative, which was known as Citrus World from 1969 to 1998, and before that as the Florida Citrus Canners Cooperative. The brand was introduced in 1940 and is the cooperative's oldest brand. Donald Duck, one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters, is the mascot for the brand. He appears on the packaging and marketing, and in its advertising. For many years Donald Duck also appeared on the juice plant's water storage tank in Lake

title: Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers

text: He summed up the review by stating "Although it may be on the quick and easy side, it's got all the right stuff." Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers (known as Donald Duck: Quack Attack in Europe) is a platform game developed and published by Ubi Soft for various consoles and Windows-based personal computers. A different game with the same title was released for the Game Boy Color, as well as on Game Boy Advance, the latter being given the title "Donald Duck Advance". The game's reception was mixed, with reviewers praising the music, backgrounds, and animations, but

title: Donald Duck (comic strip)

text: Grandma is a hard-working farmer, but out of touch with the technologal progress of the world surrounding here. A comic strip version of Scrooge McDuck was added by Taliaferro on February 13, 1951, and a comic strip version of Ludwig Von Drake on September 25, 1961. Donald's car, the 313, was designed by Taliaferro on July 1, 1938. It has been associated with the character ever since. Donald Duck (comic strip) Donald Duck is an American comic strip by The Walt Disney Company starring Donald Duck. The first "Donald Duck" strip debuted in American newspapers on the 7th of February,

title: Donald Duck

text: Kildare Coot, a nephew of Grandma Duck. Italian artist Corrado Mastantuono created Bum Bum Ghigno, a cynical, grumpy and not too good looking Duck who teams up with Donald and Gyro a lot. The American artist William Van Horn also introduced a new character: Rumpus McFowl, an old and rather corpulent Duck with a giant appetite and laziness, who is first said to be a cousin of Scrooge. Only later, Scrooge reveals to his nephews Rumpus is actually his half-brother. Later, Rumpus also finds out. Working for the Danish editor Egmont, artist Daniel Branca (1951–2005) and script-writers Paul Halas and

title: Donald Duck Presents

text: Donald Duck Presents Donald Duck Presents is a television series that aired on The Disney Channel beginning in 1983 and which featured Disney animated shorts. Although Donald Duck shorts were the primary programming, additional cartoons featuring Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Pluto, as well as Silly Symphonies, Disney featurettes, and other Disney-based shorts were shown. The show was first aired on September 1, 1983, a few months after The Disney Channel was launched. Its timeslot for its early run was at 8 a.m. Eastern/Pacific Time, making it the third program of The Disney Channel's 16 (later 18) hour programming

title: Donald Duck

text: Daisy from Merlock. The Italian-produced comic "PKNA – Paperinik New Adventures" stars Donald Duck as "Paperinik", or "Duck Avenger", in his battles against new alien enemies: Evronian Empire, founded by emperor Evron. Donald Duck first appeared in the 1934 cartoon "The Wise Little Hen" which was part of the "Silly Symphonies" series of theatrical cartoon shorts. The film's release date of June 9 is officially recognized by the Walt Disney Company as Donald's birthday despite a couple of in-universe contradictions. Donald's appearance in the cartoon, as created by animator Dick Lundy, is similar to his modern look – the feather

title: Donald Duck

text: US and "Superduck" in the UK) were created. The origins of Donald Duck's name may have been inspired by Australian cricket legend Donald Bradman. In 1932 Bradman and the Australian team were touring North America and he made the news after being dismissed for a duck against New York West Indians. Walt Disney was in the process of creating a friend for Mickey Mouse when he possibly read about Bradman's dismissal in the papers and decided to name the new character "Donald Duck". Voice performer Clarence Nash auditioned for Walt Disney Studios when he learned that Disney was looking for

title: Donald Duck universe

text: with varying degrees of consistency. Disney comics are the primary medium for Donald Duck stories. Contributors include Americans Carl Barks, Ted Osborne, Don Rosa, Tony Strobl, Al Taliaferro, and William Van Horn, as well as Italians Giovan Battista Carpi, Marco Rota, and Romano Scarpa. Other media includes short films in the "Donald Duck" series, children's books such as Little Big Books and Little Golden Books, television series such as "DuckTales" (1987–1990), "Darkwing Duck" (1991–1992), and the "Ducktales" reboot (2017–), and video games such as "QuackShot" (1991), "" (2000), and "" (2013). "Donald Duck universe" is not an official Disney term,

title: Donald Duck

text: Celebrate Christmas". Segments include "Ferdinand the Bull", a short with Chip 'n' Dale, a segment from "Lady and the Tramp", a sneak preview of a coming Disney movie and concludes with Jiminy Cricket performing "When You Wish Upon a Star". To many people watching this special is a tradition as important as having a Christmas tree. Donald Duck is very popular in Germany, where Donald themed comics sell an average of 250,000 copies each week, mostly published in the kids' weekly "Micky Maus" and the monthlies "Donald Duck Special" (for adults) and "Lustiges Taschenbuch". The "Wall Street Journal" called Donald

title: Donald Duck (American comic book)

text: Donald Duck and Friends. When IDW took over publishing the title in May 2015 they restarted from #1, but retained the 'legacy' numbering as a secondary number (the first issue is also issue #368). Donald Duck (American comic book) Donald Duck is an American comic book magazine starring the Disney character Donald Duck and published by various publishers since 1952. The first issue was released in November 1952, but the numeration started with #26 because the previous "Four Color" issues titled "Donald Duck", released between October 1942 ("Four Color" #9) and September 1952 ("Four Color" #422), were retroactively treated as

title: Donald Duck Party

text: Donald Duck Party The Donald Duck Party () is a Swedish joke political party named after the Disney character Donald Duck. The party has received joke or protest votes without actually existing for several years; however, before the Swedish general election, 2002, Malmö citizen Bosse Persson had ballots made for the party (as well as for several other frivolous parties). Contrary to popular belief, however, the party was never officially registered with the Election Authority. In the 2002 national election, the party received 10 votes from pre-printed ballots and an unknown number of hand-written ballots. In the 2006 elections, the

title: Donald "Duck" Richardson

text: Donald "Duck" Richardson Donald H. "Duck" Richardson, Sr. (September 16, 1935 – September 4, 2011) was the boys' basketball coach at Southwest Magnet High School in Macon, Georgia from 1971 to 1990. During that period, he coached future NBA players Jeff Malone, Ivano Newbill, Norm Nixon, and Sharone Wright. He also coached several players who went on to play Division I college basketball, such as Eric Manuel. A total of 92 Southwest players were awarded collegiate athletic scholarships during his tenure. His career achievements included a 463–90 record (83.7% winning percentage), which set a school record for number of wins.

title: Donald Duck

text: on comedy or he was recast as Scrooge's helper, following his rich uncle around the globe. Dozens of writers continued to utilize Donald in their stories around the world. For example, the Disney Studio artists, who made comics directly for the European market. Two of them, Dick Kinney (1917–1985) and Al Hubbard (1915–1984) created Donald's cousin Fethry Duck. The American artists Vic Lockman and Tony Strobl (1915–1991), who were working directly for the American comic books, created Moby Duck. Strobl was one of the most productive Disney artists of all time and drew many stories which Barks wrote and sketched

title: Donald Duck

text: series "DuckTales". There, Donald joins the U.S. Navy and leaves his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie with their Uncle Scrooge, who then has to take care of them. Donald's role in the overall series was fairly limited, as he only ended up appearing in a handful of episodes when home on leave. Some of the stories in the series were loosely based on the comics by Carl Barks. Donald made some cameo appearances in "Bonkers", before getting his own television show "Quack Pack". This series featured a modernized Duck family. Donald was no longer wearing his sailor suit and hat,

title: Donald Duck

text: Ghigno", more a bumbler and a nuisance than he is, but still a good person at heart. The Italian rendition of Donald Duck seldom, if ever, goes by his first name, having everyone, including his nephews, Daisy and Uncle Scrooge, address him as "Paperino" (his Italian surname). He also appears in the Topolino comics depicting his childhood, called "Paperino Paperotto" (), which were first produced in Italy in 1998. He lives in the fictional town, Quack Town with Grandma Duck and Billy Goat. Donald Duck has played a major role in many Disney theme parks over the years. He has

title: Donald Duck (Dutch comic book)

text: In 2014 it was read by 1.6 million Dutch citizens above the age of 13, out of which 940.000 men and 660.000 women. In 2008 it was the most read magazine among Dutch students (10%). In 2012, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte appeared in "Donald Duck". Rutte said that he was honored; he was a big fan during his youth. In 2013, Donald Duck became a museum guard and was chased down canals, in honor of the reopening of the Rijksmuseum and the 400 year anniversary of the Canals of Amsterdam. Donald Duck (Dutch comic book) Donald Duck is a

title: Donald Duck (Dutch comic book)

text: Donald Duck (Dutch comic book) Donald Duck is a weekly comic book with Walt Disney characters published in the Netherlands. On 25 October 1952 the first edition was freely distributed with the women's weekly magazine "Margriet". It is published by Sanoma, and had a circulation of 285.000 copies in 2012. A 2014 study by Nationaal Onderzoek Multimedia of comic book reading among Dutch children ages 6–12 during the past year, placed "Donald Duck" (81%) as most read comic book, and "Donald Duck Extra" (44%) as second place, before Kidsweek (33%), Nickelodeon magazine (33%), Tina (25%) and National Geographic junior (33%).

title: Donald Duck

text: in various Disney projects, such as "The Reluctant Dragon" (1941) and the "Disneyland" television show (1959). For this latter show, Donald's uncles Ludwig von Drake (1961) and Scrooge McDuck (1967) were then created in animation. In "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", Donald has a piano duel scene with his Warner Brothers counterpart and rival Daffy Duck voiced by Mel Blanc. Donald has since appeared in several different television shows and (short) animated movies. He played roles in "The Prince and the Pauper" and made a cameo appearance in "A Goofy Movie." Donald had a rather small part in the animated television

title: Donald "Duck" Richardson

text: Richardson led Southwest to fifteen subregional championships, ten regional championships, six state championships, and one national championship (1979). Under his management, Southwest boys' basketball teams never had a losing season. Coach Richardson was the husband of Jacquelyn Richardson. Together they raised 4 children; 3 Sons - Stan Richardson, Don Z. Richardson, Donald H. Richardson Jr., and a daughter, Linda Richardson. Prior to Richardson's death, Southwest High School's gymnasium basketball court was named in his honor. Donald "Duck" Richardson Donald H. "Duck" Richardson, Sr. (September 16, 1935 – September 4, 2011) was the boys' basketball coach at Southwest Magnet High School

title: Donald Duck

text: U.S. Army during World War II that culminated with him serving as a commando in the film "Commando Duck", and he was frequently away serving in the U.S. Navy in the television cartoon series "DuckTales". Throughout his career, Donald has shown that he's jealous of Mickey and wants his job as Disney's greatest star, similar to the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck rivalry. In most Disney theatrical cartoons, Mickey and Donald are shown as friends and have little to no rivalry (exceptions being "The Band Concert," "Magician Mickey" and near the end of "Symphony Hour, "which were due to Donald's

title: Donald Duck Presents

text: day. Brief clips and segues featuring Donald Duck typically were placed between each short. The shorts often were edited down, removing the opening and closing credits, and in some cases, edited for length. The opening of the show featured a cavalcade of scenes from Disney shorts, and a theme song. Unlike the opening of "Good Morning, Mickey!", which features all of the characters in the theme, the opening of Donald Duck Presents features only Donald (and his nephews). The show was replaced by "Donald's Quack Attack" in 1992. This show was released only on VHS PAL in the UK as

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: Paperino e il mistero di Marte" (later reprinted in the United States as "The Secret of Mars", "Donald Duck" #286) by Federico Pedrocchi, first published on December 30, 1937. Back in the USA, Donald finally became the star of his own newspaper comic strip. The "Donald Duck" daily strip started on February 2, 1938, and the "Donald Duck" Sunday page began December 10, 1939. Taliaferro drew both, this time co-operating with writer Bob Karp. He continued to work at the daily strip until October 10, 1968, and at the Sunday page until February 16, 1969. Among other innovations, Taliaferro made

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: as a 12-part series on "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", which won Rosa two Eisner awards. Also for Egmont, Rosa developed a popular edition of the Donald Duck family tree. Rosa retired in 2008, two years after the publication of his last story. Other important artists who have worked on Donald are Freddy Milton and Daan Jippes, who made eighteen ten-pagers in the 1970s and 1980s that some claim are as good as Barks's work. More recently, both Jippes and Milton have continued to produce Duck stories on a solo basis. Paperinik (also known as PK [Italy; USA

title: Donald Duck

text: substituting for Walt. The rivalry between Mickey and Donald has also been shown in "Disney's House of Mouse". It was shown that Donald wanted to be the Club's founder and wanted to change the name from "House of Mouse" to "House of Duck", which is obvious in the episodes "The Stolen Cartoons" and "Timon and Pumbaa". In the episode "Everybody Loves Mickey", Donald's jealousy is explored and even joins sides with Mortimer Mouse. However, Donald has a change of heart when Daisy reminds Donald how Mickey has always been there to support him. Since then, Donald accepted that Mickey was

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: through the bin time after time, looking for his ship. Romano Scarpa, an Italian Disney artist, created Brigitta MacBridge, a female Duck who is madly in love with Scrooge. Her affections are rarely reciprocated, although she perseveres. Scarpa also created Dickie Duck, granddaughter of Glittering Goldie (Scrooge's prospective love interest in the Klondike), and Kildare Coot, an eccentric nephew of Grandma Duck. Italian artist Corrado Mastantuono created Bum Bum Ghigno, a cynical, grumpy, and not very good-looking Duck who teams up with Donald and Gyro a lot. The American artist William Van Horn also introduced a new character, Rumpus McFowl,

title: Donald Duck

text: antagonistic schemes). However, by the time "The Mickey Mouse Club" aired on television (after Bugs vs. Daffy cartoons such as Rabbit Fire), it was shown that Donald always wanted the spotlight. One animated short that rivaled the famous Mickey Mouse March song was showing Huey, Dewey, and Louie as Boy Scouts and Donald as their Scoutmaster at a cliff near a remote forest and Donald leads them in a song mirroring the Mouseketeers theme "D-O-N-A-L-D D-U-C-K! Donald Duck!" The rivalry would cause Donald some problems, in a 1988 TV special, where Mickey is cursed by a sorcerer to become unnoticed,

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: stories originally created for a comic book made their appearance. In the United Kingdom, Odhams Press also created original stories with Donald Duck. "Donald and Donna", published in "Mickey Mouse Weekly" #67 (May 15, 1937), was the first Donald Duck adventure ever. The story was fifteen pages long and published in weekly episodes. The last appeared on August 21, 1937. All episodes were drawn by William A. Ward. Disney had also licensed the Italian publishing house Mondadori to create stories with the Disney characters as their stars. The first to star Donald, under his Italian name "Paolino Paperino", was "Paolino

title: Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics

text: "Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics". According to the publisher, the price increase is due to the restoration and recoloring necessary for the Sunday strips, something that was not needed for the black-and-white daily strips. The release schedule for the series has to this date been inconsistent—two volumes during 2016, but none during 2017 or 2018. In April 2018, it was announced that the series is on hold due to the publisher prioritizing work on their companion project "Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics". Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics is a

title: Donald Duck

text: grant him some better luck, always failing. However the constant search for an outlet to vent his frustration, led the Italian rendition of Donald Duck to seek his catharsis in several ways: in the sixties, vexed by Scrooge's antics and Gladstone luck, he reinvented himself as Paperinik, the "Duck Avenger" (as he came to be known outside Italy), an anti-hero at first, a self-assured, well adjusted, brilliant hero in later stories, no longer bound by the self-doubt and the mockery Donald is constantly subjected. Further along the years, he fashioned for himself the additional identities of "QQ7", a bumbling secret

title: Donald Duck

text: in the Nordic countries, and Nordic peoples recognise him better than Mickey Mouse. "Kalle Anka & Co", Donald's first dedicated Swedish anthology, started in September 1948. In 2001 the Finnish Post Office issued a stamp set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Donald's presence in Finland. By 2005 around one out of every four Norwegians read the Norwegian edition "Donald Duck & Co." per week, translating to around 1.3 million regular readers. During the same year, every week 434,000 Swedes read "Kalle Anka & Co". By 2005 in Finland the Donald Duck anthology "Aku Ankka" sold 270,000 copies per issue.

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: and Patricia Pig and Donald Duck..." Donald may well have made another early printed appearance in "Mickey Mouse Annual" #3 (published 1932; the annual for 1933), a 128-page British hardback. This book included the poem "Mickey's Hoozoo, Witswitch and Wotswot", which listed all of Mickey's then-current barnyard animal friends. Among them was a duckling named Donald Duck. Besides the name, however, there is little similarity between this character and the one introduced in "The Wise Little Hen" during 1934. "Mickey Mouse Annual" 3 was drawn entirely by Wilfred Haughton. The Donald of "The Wise Little Hen" made his printed debut

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: Donald Duck in comics Donald Duck, a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company, is today the star of dozens of comic-book and comic-strip stories published each month (in certain parts of the world, each week) around the world. The earliest print mention of Donald Duck is likely in 1931, in the book, "The Adventures of Mickey Mouse," published by David McKay Company, Philadelphia. On the first text page, none of which are numbered, the third paragraph begins, "Mickey has many friends in the old barn and the barnyard, besides Minnie Mouse. They are Henry Horse and Carolyn Cow

title: Donald Duck

text: the world believes Mickey to be kidnapped. Donald Duck is then arrested for the kidnapping of Mickey, as he is considered to be the chief suspect, due to their feud. However, Donald did later get the charges dismissed, due to lack of evidence. Walt Disney, in his "Wonderful World of Color", would sometimes make reference to the rivalry. Walt, one time, had presented Donald with a gigantic birthday cake and commented how it was "even bigger than Mickey's", which pleased Donald. The clip was rebroadcast in November 1984 during a TV special honoring Donald's 50th birthday, with Dick Van Dyke

title: Donald Duck

text: the Donald Duck comics about him being physically unhealthy and unmotivated to exercise. Usually, some character close to Donald annoys him by saying he's being lazy and needs to get some exercise. But despite his apparent idleness, Donald proves that he is muscular. In the short film, "Sea Scouts", Donald is traveling with his nephews in a boat when it's attacked by a shark. Donald makes several attempts to defeat the shark, each of which proves ineffective, but then finally triumphs and defeats the shark with a single well-placed punch. Additionally, as discussed below- Donald had a stint in the

title: Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold

text: Disney files of cartoon ideas that were shelved. He found the over 800 numbered sketches for "Morgan's Ghost" and was instantly struck that most of the work had already been done in terms of visualizing the story. Lebeck felt it could easily be adapted into a Donald Duck comic book story." Hannah recalled John Clarke Rose, Story Research Director at the Disney Studio, "... took us to meet Eleanor Packer who I believe was in charge of Whitman/Western Publishing. They wanted us to draw 64 pages of a Donald Duck story. I suspect the reason we were chosen for this

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: inspired by PKNA was released for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube, entitled "" (sometimes called "Donald Duck PK", or just "PK"). In the game, Donald Duck, guardian of the Ducklair Tower, is transported into the artificial intelligence secret area and tasked with saving the world from the Evronians. He is given special powers, and told that he has become a "platyrhynchos kineticus", an energized duck, or PK for short, stepping around his Paperinik roots. The game received mixed reviews and once represented the only English language use of the name PK. Before the game and after it until 2016 when

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: book series starring the childhood of Donald Duck and his friends in stories. He first appeared in Paperino Paperotto and the Hardest Day. The comics was originally in Italy published by Disney Italia. Created by Bruno Enna, Diego Fasano and Paola Mulazzi, young Donald lives in Quacktown, a country village on the outskirts of Duckburg located where there is the farm of Grandma Duck with Billy Goat. Other than Italian comics, some stories about the character have also been created for Danish comics. According to Don Rosa, Donald was born in 1920, however, this is "not" an official year of

title: Donald Duck universe

text: not eat. Duckburg is also the home of the Billionaires Club of some of which Scrooge McDuck, John D. Rockerduck and, according to some stories, Flintheart Glomgold are influential members. Duckburg also has a Ritz Hotel, first mentioned in Carl Barks' story "Turkey with All the Schemings" (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #148, 1953) at which Scrooge McDuck had a business meeting with Donald Duck; who was disguised as the Duke of Baloni, the World's Second-Richest Duck at that time. In the same story Scrooge later buys the Ritz Hotel and he still owns it in Don Rosa's story "Attaaaaaack!"

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: appeared in a portrait on August 11, 1940, and in person on September 28, 1943. Taliaferro also reintroduced Donna Duck as a separate character from Daisy. This old flame of Donald rivaled Daisy for his affections between August 7, 1951 and August 18, 1951, before leaving him for another. Donald had already been familiar to the American reading public through his newspaper comic strip by 1942. Then Disney licensed Western Publishing to create original comic book stories, with Disney characters as their stars. But the first American Donald Duck story originally created for a comic book was created by Studio-employed

title: Donald Duck (comic strip)

text: production of new episodes of the comic strip, and to start publishing reprints of older episodes. While the "Mickey Mouse" comic strip was an adventure series, the "Donald Duck" comic strip continued to be a daily comedy series. Each episode featured Donald dealing with problems and humorous situations. Most of the strips featured stand-alone gags, although some ongoing plots were introduced. The strips often lacked dialogue. Taliaferro and Karp started expanding the Donald Duck universe by introducing new supporting characters for the protagonist. On March 17, 1938, they introduced Bolivar, Donald's pet St. Bernard. The strip found humor in the

title: Donald Duck

text: being married to her, for not wearing trousers, and for, in the words of the "Library Journal", being "too bourgeois". Some observers from Finland from the same time period supported Donald, referring to him as a "genuine proletarian ... forced to sell his labor at slave rates to make a living". The "Library Journal" said it was revealed that, since 1950, Donald had secretly been married to Daisy. An annual Christmas special in Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden is "From All of Us to All of You", in Norway and Sweden with a title of "Donald Duck and His Friends

title: Donald Duck

text: directed by Jack King (they had been earlier introduced in the Donald Duck comic strip by Al Taliaferro, see below). By 1938, most polls showed that Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse. Disney could, however, help Mickey regain popularity by redesigning him, giving him his most appealing design as production for the "Fantasia" segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" began in 1938. After his early appearances, he went on to become part of the famed trio Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. He appeared in many of the cartoons, including "Moving Day". Several of Donald's shorts during the war were propaganda films, most

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: artists: "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold", first published in October 1942. The story was written by Bob Karp, who based it on the storyboard of the unproduced Mickey Mouse short Morgan's Ghost by Harry Reeves and Homer Brightman. Karp gave Donald a starring role by removing Mickey and Goofy from the plot while also adding Donald's nephews. Then it was given to Carl Barks and Jack Hannah to illustrate. The story places Donald and his nephews on a treasure hunt for the lost treasure of Henry Morgan, and it manages to combine elements of humor and adventure with dramatic moments

title: Donald Duck Party

text: party (including all spellings) received 225 votes, placing it in the middle of the pack - 21st place out of about 40 parties running for office. All votes were write-in. In the 2010 elections, the party received 107 votes, making it the largest party without pre-printed ballots, and the 21st largest party in the Swedish riksdag elections. In the 2014 elections, the party received 133 votes, the 24th most voted for party in the Riksdag elections and the third largest party without pre-printed ballots. Donald Duck Party The Donald Duck Party () is a Swedish joke political party named after

title: Donald Duck talk

text: to drive the air through a small gap between or behind the teeth into the mouth. The sound so produced makes a high rough sound. This then is articulated to make speech. The speech sounds made in this way are difficult to hear and have a raised pitch. The technique can be also be used to sing, and is usually acquired as a taught or self-learned skill and used for entertainment. Donald Duck talk Donald Duck talk, formally called buccal speech, is an alaryngeal form of vocalization which uses the inner cheek to produce sound rather than the larynx. The

title: Donald Duck and the Gorilla

text: up a ladder at the end of some stairs, and destroying wooden planks from a really long table. Ajax pushes the table to try to flatten Donald and bite Donald's tail, but it pokes Ajax in the eye. Amid all these things, with the help of the radio announcer, the nephews use a tear gas in an attempt to stop Ajax, and it successfully subdues Ajax, but affects Donald as well. Tearing up, Ajax and Donald console one another as the cartoon closed. VHS Laserdisc DVD VCD Television Donald Duck and the Gorilla Donald Duck and the Gorilla is a

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: is often used as a source of humor. His alias Paperinik on the other side has the "313" (which sports a different plate, namely "X") equipped with a lot of high tech gadgets by Gyro Gearloose to combat crime. In "Recalled Wreck" by Don Rosa, Donald says he constructed it himself from spare parts of various sources, adding that he can't buy new car parts instead of having them fixed because his car is made of parts that are no longer produced. Donald Duck in comics Donald Duck, a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company, is today the

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: birth. According to Carl Barks, Donald's parents are Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck. Donald’s sister is named Della Duck, but neither she nor Donald's parents appear in the cartoons or comics except for special cases, like "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck". According to Rosa, Donald and Della are twins. Taliaferro introduced Donald's car, on July 1, 1938. It is recognizable by its license plate number "313". Though Donald briefly drove other cars both in Taliaferro's strip and in later stories, this car would stay with Donald throughout the following decades. The car's constant breakdowns and need of repairs

title: The Duck Who Never Was

text: Gladstone. He instead finds grossly overweight versions of Huey, Dewey and Louie, sitting on the couch eating junk food: they lived with Gladstone since they were ducklings and didn't join the Junior Woodchucks. Gladstone then appears (he was the only one who has not suffered from Donald's absence) and accuses Donald of stealing his car. When Donald tries to run away, he hits a Beagle Boy in a police outfit (they turned "straight" after Scrooge went bust, but are implied to be a highly corrupt police force). Donald jumps to Gladstone's car and drives to the museum hoping to find

title: Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics

text: Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics is a series of hardcover books collecting the complete run of Disney's Donald Duck Sunday newspaper comic strip. Drawn by the American comic artist Al Taliaferro, it starts off with the first of Donald Duck's own Sunday strip page from 10 December 1939, after he had first been introduced in the successful "Silly Symphonies" Sunday strip feature as well as in his own daily newspaper strip since 1938. The publisher behind the project is IDW Publishing and their imprint (subdivision), "The Library of American Comics". The first book

title: How to Read Donald Duck

text: then-ongoing Iraq War (2003–2011) as an example of where this ideological strategy leads. According to historian Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, "How to Read Donald Duck" was part of a wider change in policy in 1970s Chile. She calls the policy "Roasting the Duck". In context, The Walt Disney Company enjoyed a wide cultural presence in the Chile of the 1960s, partly through educational films such as "Family Planning" ("Planificación Familiar", 1967). The character Donald Duck was particularly prominent in Chile. The Chilean leaders of the 1970s attempted to abolish what they perceived to be emblems of cultural imperialism. The writers

title: Donald Duck

text: Donald is popular in Germany because "almost everyone can identify with him. He has strengths and weaknesses; he lacks polish but is also very cultured and well-read." It is through this everyman persona that Donald is able to voice philosophical truths about German society that appeal to both children and adults. Donald's writers and illustrators Carl Barks, Don Rosa and Ub Iwerks are well known in Germany and have their own fan clubs. Donald Duck (named Paolino Paperino) is also a very popular character in Italy, where new stories about him and Scrooge McDuck are hosted in the kids' weekly

title: Donald Duck

text: but every time he tries, the mischievous orphans heckle him, leading the duck to fly into a squawking fit of anger. This explosive personality would remain with Donald for decades to come. Donald continued to be a hit with audiences. The character began appearing regularly in most Mickey Mouse cartoons. Cartoons from this period, such as the 1935 cartoon "The Band Concert" – in which Donald repeatedly disrupts the Mickey Mouse Orchestra's rendition of "The William Tell Overture" by playing "Turkey in the Straw" – are regularly hailed by critics as exemplary films and classics of animation. Animator Ben Sharpsteen

title: Donald Duck (comic strip)

text: writer Merrill De Maris to create new sample stories, but these were also rejected. Taliaferro then co-operated with writer Homer Brightman, and this time the sample stories were approved. Taliaferro's idea was greenlighted and the new Donald Duck comic strip was about to begin. On February 2, 1938, the Donald Duck comic strip started appearing in daily newspapers. A Sunday version was added on December 10, 1939. Taliaferro's was the strip's main penciller, while Homer Brightman was its writer and came up with the gags. But Brightman was mostly a screenwriter, and soon quit the comic strip and returned to

title: How to Read Donald Duck

text: Barks did not even know that his cartoons were read outside the United States in the 1950s. Lastly, he writes that Barks cartoons include social criticism and even anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist references. David Kunzle, who translated the book into English, spoke to Carl Barks for his introduction and came to a similar conclusion. He believes Barks projected his own experience as an underpaid cartoonist onto Donald Duck, and views some of his stories as satires "in which the imperialist Duckburgers ["sic"] come off looking as foolish as—and far meaner than—the innocent Third World natives". How to Read Donald Duck How

title: How to Read Donald Duck

text: of life which Allende's Chile was fighting against, in order to seek "another possible world". The book was grounded in a specific historical reality, and was intended to arouse debate on a cultural issue which had been mostly ignored by left-wing forces. "How to Read Donald Duck" was in part influenced by an earlier work, "Mythologies" (1957) by Roland Barthes. Mattelart argues that his book can be read as an extension of "Mythologies". Both the Spanish title "Para Leer al Pato Donald" and the literal English title "How to Read Donald Duck" were chosen in reference to the earlier work

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: living in isolation in a huge mansion who is visibly leaning on his cane. Gladstone was presented as a rather arrogant cousin that had a claim on Donald's house. More specifically, in summer he had gotten Donald to agree to a wager. On Christmas, he had to either swim in a lake near his house or to pass his house to Gladstone. Gladstone does not yet lay claim to the title of "The Luckiest Duck In the World". Daisy, who saves Donald from losing his house, still seems to have no interest in Gladstone. Their love triangle hadn't formed yet.

title: Donald Duck

text: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia. Though a 1931 Disney publication called "Mickey Mouse Annual" mentioned a character named Donald Duck, the character's first appearance in comic-strip format was a newspaper cartoon that was based on the short "The Wise Little Hen" and published in 1934. For the next few years, Donald made a few more appearances in Disney-themed strips, and by 1936, he had grown to be one of the most popular characters in the "Silly Symphonies" comic strip. Ted Osborne was the primary writer of these strips, with Al Taliaferro as his artist. Osborne

title: Donald Duck

text: the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre. Donald Duck rose to fame with his comedic roles in animated cartoons. Donald's first appearance was in 1934 in "The Wise Little Hen", but it was his second appearance in "Orphan's Benefit" which introduced him as a temperamental comic foil to Mickey Mouse. Throughout the next two decades, Donald appeared in over 150 theatrical films, several of which were recognized at the Academy Awards. In the 1930s, he typically appeared as part of a comic trio with Mickey and Goofy and was given his own film

title: Donald Duck pocket books

text: the Finnish version, which started in 1970, the Polish which started in 1992, Icelandic which started in 1994 and Estonian which started in 2008. The Italian edition, published since 1949, was the inspiration for the later European editions. Donald Duck pocket books The Donald Duck pocket books are a series of paperback-sized publications published in various European countries, featuring Disney comics. The "pocket books" were originally published irregularly (about 6 times a year) until 1987 and monthly since. They are roughly A5-sized (digest size) and about 250 pages thick. Each book has about eight stories, but the numbers of stories

title: Donald Duck in comics

text: for a comic-book story, Barks redefined his personality and gave him articulated speech and shaded emotions. To give Donald a world to live in, Barks developed the city of Duckburg in the American state of Calisota. He was allowed to focus entirely on his own cast of Duckburg citizens, such as the richest duck in the world, Uncle Scrooge McDuck, lucky cousin Gladstone Gander, and peculiar inventor Gyro Gearloose. In the comics, Donald lives in a Duckburg house with Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck. Much of this scenario would resurface in the 1987 television series, "DuckTales". In that cartoon, however,

title: Donald Duck (comic strip)

text: strip for Donald Duck, but had trouble convincing his bosses to support his idea. He initially pitched the idea to Roy O. Disney, who rejected it. Taliaferro then produced three weeks-worth of episodes for a Donmald Duck comic strip, brought them to Roy Disney, and asked him to offer the strip to King Features Syndicate for publication. (King Features had syndicated all Disney comic strips up to this point.) Roy Disney was not particularly interested, but his brother Walt Disney could see potential in the project. Taliaferro's original sample stories were rejected due to having "weak gags". Taliaferro co-operated with