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Disney dorks like me will find this peek at Donald Duck’s lineage fascinating. Drawn by comic artist Don Rosa, it first appeared in “Walt Disney’s Comics (and Stories)” in 1995. It gives us a peek at little-known characters like “Sir Swamphole McDuck” and “Humperdink Duck.” What’s up with the mystery around Huey, Dewie and Louie’s dad?
You can also see what names the characters go by in other parts of the world by clicking on their English names. Daisy, for example, is also known as Margarida (Portuguese), Katrien (Dutch), Paperina (Italian) and Dolly (Norwegian).
With a name like “Donald Duck”, I’m sure we can all understand why he has a drug and alcohol problem. Growing up must be tough for this dude:
A man named Donald Duck was arrested on drug charges after an accident in a drive-through line over the weekend.
Officers said Duck, 51, was arrested at about 5:25 p.m. Saturday after he repeatedly struck the car in front of him while at a drive-through pizza line on Lincoln Way East in Massillon.
The Disney folks have stated that Donald Duck was “born” on June 9, 1934, which is the day his first cartoon came out. But when is his real birthday? Bob Bishop did some detective work to uncover the actual date. A series of clues led him to determine that Donald Duck was born on March 13th, 1914. Link -via the Presurfer
Previously: Donald Duck’s Family Tree
The people of Sweden really love Donald Duck, or Kalle Anka as he’s called. They are especially enamored of the duck’s comic antics during the Christmas season, as the country pretty much shuts down for an hour on Christmas Eve to watch the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas television special, “From All of Us to All of You.”
The special features a bunch of cartoons, snippets from feature Disney films, and promos for new projects, and while only a small fraction of the content is holiday-related, half the country tunes in every year as a tradition.
Slate’s Jeremy Stahl experienced the cultural phenomenon firsthand:
The show’s cultural significance cannot be understated. You do not tape or DVR Kalle Anka for later viewing. You do not eat or prepare dinner while watching Kalle Anka. Age does not matter—every member of the family is expected to sit quietly together and watch a program that generations of Swedes have been watching for 50 years. Most families plan their entire Christmas around Kalle Anka, from the Smörgåsbord at lunch to the post-Kalle visit from Jultomten. “At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, you can’t to do anything else, because Sweden is closed,” Lena Kättström Höök, a curator at the Nordic Museum who manages the “Traditions” exhibit, told me. “So even if you don’t want to watch it yourself, you can’t call anyone else or do anything else, because no one will do it with you.”
Any time someone tries to modify the tradition, by even so much as recording the presenter’s lines so he can spend the day with his family, the public gets wind of it and revolts until normalcy is restored. Head over to Slate and read the full, fascinating article.
Link (via Bifurcated Rivets) Image: Serieforlaget AB
Andrew Dobrow of GearFuse worries that we could see more monstrosities like this if Disney buys Hasbro as well as Marvel Comics. The “Donald Duck Holiday Vehicle” is on sale (but backordered) from the Japanese company Takara Tomy for about $40. Most worrisome of all — it bears neither the Autobot nor Decepticon icon.
Link via GearFuse | Images: Hobby Search
Finally! After all these years, the secret of the source of Donald Duck’s laugh (rabid chuckle? mad chatter?) has been revealed! You’d never guess where it comes from …
A Welsh View has the video clip: Link [embedded YouTube clip]
