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Donald Duck is a cartoon character
Fictional character

A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
 from The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
. Donald is a white anthropomorphic
Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts....
 duck
Duck

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a clade but a form taxon, being the Anatidae not considered swans and goose....
 with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He usually wears a sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
 shirt
Shirt

A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body. Originally an item of Undergarment worn exclusively by men, it has become in American English a catch-all term for almost any upper-body garment other than outerwear such as sweaters or Coat , or undergarments such as brassiere ....
, cap, and a red or black bow tie
Bow tie

The bow tie is a men's necktie popularly worn with formal attire, such as suit or dinner jackets. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar in a symmetry manner such that the two opposite ends form loops....
, but no trousers
Trousers

Trousers are an item of clothing worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately . Such items of clothing are often referred to as pants in countries such as Canada, South Africa and The United States....
 (except when he goes swimming). Donald's most famous trait is his easily provoked and occasionally explosive temper.

According to the Disney canon, particularly in the 1942 short Donald Gets Drafted
Donald Gets Drafted

Donald Gets Drafted is a Walt Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. It was released on May 1, 1942 by RKO Radio Pictures....
, Donald's full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck.






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Donald Duck is a cartoon character
Fictional character

A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
 from The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
. Donald is a white anthropomorphic
Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts....
 duck
Duck

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a clade but a form taxon, being the Anatidae not considered swans and goose....
 with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He usually wears a sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
 shirt
Shirt

A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body. Originally an item of Undergarment worn exclusively by men, it has become in American English a catch-all term for almost any upper-body garment other than outerwear such as sweaters or Coat , or undergarments such as brassiere ....
, cap, and a red or black bow tie
Bow tie

The bow tie is a men's necktie popularly worn with formal attire, such as suit or dinner jackets. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar in a symmetry manner such that the two opposite ends form loops....
, but no trousers
Trousers

Trousers are an item of clothing worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately . Such items of clothing are often referred to as pants in countries such as Canada, South Africa and The United States....
 (except when he goes swimming). Donald's most famous trait is his easily provoked and occasionally explosive temper.

According to the Disney canon, particularly in the 1942 short Donald Gets Drafted
Donald Gets Drafted

Donald Gets Drafted is a Walt Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. It was released on May 1, 1942 by RKO Radio Pictures....
, Donald's full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck. Donald's birthday is officially recognized as June 9, 1934, the day his debut film, The Wise Little Hen
The Wise Little Hen

The Wise Little Hen is a Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies cartoon, based on the fairy tale The Little Red Hen. This cartoon marked the debut of Donald Duck....
, was released. However, in The Three Caballeros
The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, that plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and traditional animation....
 (1944), his birthday is given as simply "Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th is the thirteenth day in a month that falls on Friday, which superstition holds that it is a day of good or bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once a year....
", which is in reference to the bad luck he experiences in almost all his cartoon appearances. Donald's Happy Birthday (short) gives his birthday as March 13. Donald Duck is a well-known and popular character in Scandinavia
Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
n countries.

Donald's voice, one of the most identifiable voices in all of animation, was performed by voice actor Clarence "Ducky" Nash
Clarence Nash

Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash was an United States voice actor, best known for providing the voice of Donald Duck for The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment....
 up to 1983. It was largely this semi-intelligible speech that would cement Donald's image into audiences' minds and help fuel both Donald's and Nash's rise to stardom. Since 1985, Donald has been voiced by Tony Anselmo
Tony Anselmo

Tony Anselmo is an animator and cartoon voice actor and, since 1985, the voice of Donald Duck. Anselmo was trained by the original voice of Donald, Clarence Nash....
, who was trained by Nash for the role.Donald is a V.I.P. member of the Mickey Mouse Club
Mickey Mouse Club

The Mickey Mouse Club was a long-running United States variety show television show that began in 1955, produced by The Walt Disney Company and televised by the American Broadcasting Company, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of teenage performers....
.

Donald in animation


Early appearances

Donald Duck Debut
According to Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin is an United States film critic and film historian. He has authored numerous mainstream books on the cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives....
 in his introduction to The Chronological Donald - Volume 1, Donald was created by Walt Disney when he heard Clarence Nash doing his "duck" voice while reciting "Mary had a little lamb
Mary had a little lamb

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is a nursery rhyme of 19th-century United States origin....
". Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
 had lost some of his edge since becoming a role model for children and Disney wanted a character that could portray some of the more negative character traits he could no longer bestow on Mickey.

Donald Duck first appeared in the Silly Symphonies
Silly Symphonies

Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by The Walt Disney Company from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles....
 cartoon The Wise Little Hen
The Wise Little Hen

The Wise Little Hen is a Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies cartoon, based on the fairy tale The Little Red Hen. This cartoon marked the debut of Donald Duck....
 on June 9, 1934 (though he is mentioned in a 1931 Disney storybook). Donald's appearance in the cartoon, as created by animator
Animator

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called animation when rapidly displayed....
 Dick Lundy
Dick Lundy (animator)

Richard "Dick" Lundy , was an United States animator and film director best known for creating Donald Duck.Lundy worked for a number of studios, including Walt Disney Productions , Walter Lantz, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and is most notable for directing Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Barney Bear cartoons....
, is similar to his modern look—the feather and beak colors are the same, as is the blue sailor shirt and hat—but his features are more elongated, his body plumper, and his feet bigger. Donald's personality is not developed either; in the short, he only fills the role of the unhelpful friend from the original story.

Bert Gilett, director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 of The Wise Little Hen, brought Donald back in his Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
 cartoon, Orphan's Benefit on August 11, 1934. Donald is one of a number of characters who are giving performances in a benefit for Mickey's Orphans. Donald's act is to recite the poems Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is a nursery rhyme of 19th-century United States origin....
 and Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue is a nursery rhyme with probable origins in the Middle Ages. Little Boy Blue was a hayward by profession....
, but every time he tries, the mischievous orphans eat his specially made pie, 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 in most Mickey Mouse cartoons as a regular member of the ensemble with Mickey, Minnie
Minnie Mouse

Minnie Mouse is an animated cartoon of the Mickey Mouse universe featured in animated cartoons, comic strips and comic book by The Walt Disney Company....
, Goofy
Goofy

Goofy is an animated cartoon character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends....
, and Pluto. Cartoons from this period, such as the 1935 cartoon The Band Concert
The Band Concert

The Band Concert is a famous 1935 Walt Disney Animation in which Mickey Mouse is conducting of an outdoor orchestra....
—in which Donald repeatedly disrupts the Mickey Mouse Orchestra's rendition of The William Tell Overture by playing Turkey in the Straw
Turkey in the Straw

"Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known United States folk song dating from the early 19th century. The song's tune was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by blackface performers, notably George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell and George Nichols....
—are regularly hailed by critics as exemplary films and classics of animation. Animator Ben Sharpsteen
Ben Sharpsteen

Ben Sharpsteen was an American film director and film producer. He directed 31 films between 1920 in film and 1980 in film.He died in Sonoma County, California....
 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. He also began starring in solo cartoons, the first of which was the January 9, 1937 Ben Sharpsteen cartoon, Don Donald
Don Donald

Don Donald .was Donald Duck's first headliner cartoon. It introduces Donna Duck for the first time as Donald's girlfriend. Clarence Nash voices both since Donna's voice is the same as Donald's an octave higher....
. This short also introduced a love interest of Donald's, Donna Duck. Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie
Huey, Dewey and Louie

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are a trio of ducks who appear in animated cartoons and comic books published by the Walt Disney Company....
, would make their first animated appearance a year later in the April 15, 1938 film, Donald's Nephews
Donald's Nephews

Donald's Nephews is a Donald Duck cartoon which features Donald visited by his three nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie....
, directed by Jack King
Jack King

Jack King could refer to:*Jack King , pseudonym for an author of spy thrillers*Jack King , cartoon director and animator for Warner Bros and Disney...
 (they had been earlier introduced in the Donald Duck comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 by Al Taliaferro
Al Taliaferro

Charles Alfred Taliaferro , known simply as Al Taliaferro, was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate....
, see below). By 1938, at most, polls showed that Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse. Disney could, however, help Mickey regain popularity by redesigning giving him his most appealing design as production for the Fantasia segment The Sorcerer's Apprentice began in 1938.

Wartime Donald

During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, film audiences were looking for brasher, edgier cartoon characters. It is no coincidence that the same era that saw the birth and rise of Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
 also saw Donald Duck's popularity soar. Before 1941, Donald Duck had appeared in about 50 cartoons. Between 1941 and 1965, Donald would star in over 100.
Der Fuehrer's Face
Several of Donald's shorts during the war were propaganda
Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
 films, most notably Der Fuehrer's Face
Der Fuehrer's Face

Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 in film animated cartoon by the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment, starring Donald Duck. It was directed by Jack Kinney and released on January 1, 1943 as an anti-Nazism propaganda piece for the United States war effort....
, released on January 1, 1943. In it, Donald plays a worker in an artillery factory in "Nutzi Land" (Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
). He struggles with long working hours, very small food rations, and having to salute
Salute

A salute is a gesture or other action used to display respect. Salutes are primarily associated with armed forces, but other organizations also use salutes....
 every time he sees a picture of the Führer
Führer

F?hrer is "leader" or "guide" in the German language, derived from the verb 'to lead'. In standard German it is , but in English it is usually ....
 (Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
). These pictures appear in many places, such as on the assembly line in which he is screwing in the detonators of various sizes of shells. In the end he becomes little more than a small part in a faceless machine with no choice but to obey until he falls, suffering a nervous breakdown. Then Donald wakes up to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare. At the end of the short Donald looks to the Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty , or, more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World , was presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886....
 and the American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 flag with renewed appreciation. Der Fuehrer's Face won the 1942 Academy Award for Animated Short Film
Academy Award for Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present....
. Other notable shorts from this period include the Army shorts, seven films that follow Donald's life in the US Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
 from his drafting to his life in basic training under sergeant Pete
Black Pete

Pete is a Disney character from the Walt Disney Company studios. He is an anthropomorphic cat and is sometimes depicted with a peg leg, and known as the arch-Wiktionary:nemesis of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy....
 to his first actual mission as a commando
Commando

In military science, the term commando denotes an individual soldier, a military unit, and a raid . Contemporarily, commando identifies ?lite light infantry and special forces units specialised in parachuting, rappelling, and amphibious warfare to conduct and effect attacks....
 having to sabotage a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese air base. Titles in the series include:

  • Donald Gets Drafted
    Donald Gets Drafted

    Donald Gets Drafted is a Walt Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. It was released on May 1, 1942 by RKO Radio Pictures....
     - (May 1, 1942).
  • The Vanishing Private
    The Vanishing Private

    The Vanishing Private is a 1942 in film animated cartoon by the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment, starring Donald Duck in the World War II years....
     - (September 25, 1942).
  • Sky Trooper
    Sky Trooper

    Sky Trooper is a 1942 in film animated cartoon by The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment starring Donald Duck during the war years....
     - (November 6, 1942).
  • Der Fuehrer's Face
    Der Fuehrer's Face

    Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 in film animated cartoon by the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment, starring Donald Duck. It was directed by Jack Kinney and released on January 1, 1943 as an anti-Nazism propaganda piece for the United States war effort....
     - (January 1, 1943).
  • Fall Out Fall In
    Fall Out Fall In

    Fall Out Fall In is a Walt Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. It was released on April 23, 1943 by RKO Pictures. The film's title is a reference to a military command meaning to create an organized formation of soldiers at regular intervals....
     - (April 23, 1943).
  • The Old Army Game - (November 5, 1943).
  • Home Defense - (November 26, 1943).
  • Commando Duck - (June 2, 1944).


Donald Gets Drafted
Donald Gets Drafted

Donald Gets Drafted is a Walt Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. It was released on May 1, 1942 by RKO Radio Pictures....
 also featured Donald having a physical examination before joining the army. According to it Donald has flat feet and is unable to distinguish between the colors green and blue, which is a type of color blindness
Color blindness

Color blindness, a color vision deficiency, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals....
. Also in this cartoon sergeant Pete comments on Donald's lack of discipline.

It is also noteworthy that thanks to these films, Donald graced the nose artwork of virtually every type of WWII
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 Allied combat aircraft, from the L-4 Grasshopper to the B-29 Superfortress
B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engine Fixed-wing aircraft#Propeller aircraft heavy bomber that was flown by the United States Military in World War II and the Korean War, and by other nations afterwards....
.

Donald also appears as a mascot—such as in the Army Air Corps 309th Fighter Squadron and the U.S Coast Guard Auxiliary, which showed Donald as a fierce-looking pirate ready to defend the American coast from invaders. Donald also appeared as a mascot emblem for: 415th Fighter Squadron; 438th Fighter Squadron; 479th Bombardment Squadron; 531th Bombardment Squadron.

During World War II, Disney cartoons were not allowed to be imported into Occupied Europe. Since this cost Disney a lot of money, he decided to create a new audience for his films in South America. He decided to make a trip through various Latin American countries with his assistants, and use their experiences and impressions to create two feature length animation films. The first was Saludos Amigos
Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in the List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features....
, which consisted of four short segments, two of them with Donald Duck. In the second, he meets his parrot pal Jose Carioca
José Carioca

Jos? Carioca is a The Walt Disney Company cartoon character drawn as an anthropomorphism parrot from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . Jos? was created in 1942 for the movie Saludos Amigos as a friend of Donald Duck....
. The second film was The Three Caballeros
The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, that plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and traditional animation....
, in which he meets his rooster friend Panchito
Panchito

Panchito may refer to:*Panchito Alba, German Filipino actor*Panchito Pistoles, Mexican cartoon character...
.

Post-war animation

Many of Donald's films made after the war recast the duck as the brunt of some other character's pestering. Donald is repeatedly attacked, harassed, and ridiculed by his nephews, by the chipmunk
Chipmunk

Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias. There are approximately 25 species in this genus....
s Chip 'n Dale
Chip 'n Dale

Chip 'n Dale are two animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company. Their names are a pun based on the name "Chippendale" . This was suggested by Bill "Tex" Henson, a story artist at the studio....
, or by other one-shot characters such as Humphrey the Bear
Humphrey the Bear

Humphrey the Bear is a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney studio in 1950. He first appeared in the Goofy cartoon Hold That Pose, in which Goofy tried to take his picture....
, Spike the Bee, Bootle Beetle, the Aracuan Bird
Aracuan Bird

The Aracuan Bird is a character created by The Walt Disney Company. The Aracuan, is also called the Clown of the Jungle and first appeared in the feature film The Three Caballeros ; though, despite his apparent on-screen popularity, strangely he did not appear in the comic book adaptation of that film....
, Louie the Mountain Lion or a colony of ants. In effect, the Disney artists had reversed the classic screwball scenario perfected by Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz

Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
 and others in which the main character is the instigator of these harassing behaviors, rather than the butt of them.

The post-war Donald also starred in educational film
Educational film

An educational film is a film or movie whose primary purpose is to educate. Educational films have been used in classrooms as an alternative to other teaching methods....
s, such as Donald in Mathmagic Land
Donald in Mathmagic Land

Donald in Mathmagic Land is a 27 minute Donald Duck featurette released on June 26, 1959. It was directed by Hamilton Luske. Contributors included The Walt Disney Company artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent Paul Frees, and scientific expert Heinz Haber, who had worked on the Disney space shows....
 and How to have an Accident at Work (both 1959), and made cameos in various Disney projects, such as The Reluctant Dragon
The Reluctant Dragon

The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 in literature Children's literature by Kenneth Grahame , which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions....
 (1941) and the Disneyland television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 show (1959). For this latter show, Donald's uncle Ludwig von Drake
Ludwig Von Drake

Ludwig von Drake is one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters. He was first introduced on September 24, 1961, as the presenter in the cartoon An Adventure in Color, part of the first show of Walt Disney anthology series on NBC....
 was created in 1961.

Clarence Nash voiced Donald for the last time in Mickey's Christmas Carol
Mickey's Christmas Carol

Mickey's Christmas Carol is a twenty-four minute animation short film produced by The Walt Disney Company and originally released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 1983 by Buena Vista Distribution....
 (1983), making Donald the only character in the film to be voiced by his original actor. Since Nash's death in 1985, Donald's voice has been provided by Tony Anselmo
Tony Anselmo

Tony Anselmo is an animator and cartoon voice actor and, since 1985, the voice of Donald Duck. Anselmo was trained by the original voice of Donald, Clarence Nash....
, who was mentored by Nash. Anselmo's voice is heard for the first time in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 fantasy film comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg and based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?....
. In this movie, Donald has a piano duel scene with the Warner Brothers duck Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball comedy film" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye, who were more popular ear...
.

Donald has since appeared in a lot of different television shows and (short) animated movies. He played roles in Mickey's Christmas Carol
Mickey's Christmas Carol

Mickey's Christmas Carol is a twenty-four minute animation short film produced by The Walt Disney Company and originally released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 1983 by Buena Vista Distribution....
 and The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper is an English language novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada before its 1882 publication in the United States....
 and made a cameo appearance
Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television....
 in A Goofy Movie
A Goofy Movie

A Goofy Movie is a 1995 in film animation musical film comedy film, produced by DisneyToon Studios and released to theatres by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution....
.


Donald had a rather small part in the animated television series DuckTales
DuckTales

DuckTales is an United States animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The show premiered on September 11, 1987 and ended on May 6, 1990....
. There, Donald joins the 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. Some of the stories in the series were loosely based on the comics by Carl Barks.

Donald made some cameo appearances in Bonkers
Bonkers (TV series)

Bonkers is an animated American television series that aired from September 4, 1993 to December 21, 1995 in first-run syndication . The syndicated run was available both separately, and as part of The Disney Afternoon....
, before getting his own television show Quack Pack
Quack Pack

Quack Pack is an animated television series made by The Walt Disney Company. The show debuted in September 1996 as a part of the Disney Afternoon weekday afternoon programming block....
. This series featured a modernized Duck family. Donald was no longer wearing his sailor suit and hat, but a Hawaiian shirt. Huey, Dewey and Louie now are teenagers, with distinct clothing, voices and personalities. Daisy Duck has lost her pink dress and bow and has a new hairdo. Oddly enough, no other family members, besides Ludwig von Drake, appear in 'Quack Pack', and all other Duckburg citizens are humans, and not dogs.

He made a comeback as the star of the Noah's Ark segment of Fantasia 2000
Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000 is an United States animated film feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures....
, as first mate to Noah. Donald musters the animals to the Ark and attempts to control them. He tragically believes that Daisy has been lost, while she believes the same of him, but they are reunited at the end. All this to Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order was an England composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim....
's Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1–4.

In an alternate opening for the 2005 Disney film Chicken Little
Chicken Little (2005 film)

Chicken Little is a 2005 live-action/CGI family film, and the 46th animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It is the first full CGI film distributed by Disney that was not created by Pixar....
, Donald would have made a cameo appearance as "Ducky Lucky". This scene can be found on the Chicken Little DVD.

Donald also played an important role in Mickey Mouse Works
Mickey Mouse Works

Mickey Mouse Works is a television show that features the cartoon character Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated segments. It is somewhat of an update of Mickey's Mouse Tracks....
 and House of Mouse. In the latter show, he is the co-owner of Mickey's night club.

Rivalry with Mickey Mouse

Through out his career Donald has shown that he dislikes Mickey and wants his job as Disney's greatest star. In the early Disney shorts Mickey and Donald were partners, but by the time The Mickey Mouse Club aired on television, it was shown that Donald always wanted the spotlight. One animated short that rivaled the famous Mickey Mouse song was showing Huey, Dewey, and Louie as Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts

* Boy Scouts are male members of a Scouting organization.* There are thousands of national Scouting organizations or federations; these are grouped into six international Scouting associations with some non-aligned organizations....
 and Donald as their Scoutmaster at a cliff near a remote forest
Forest

File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
 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
Mickey's 60th Birthday

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 where Mickey is cursed by a sorcerer to become unnoticed, the world believes Mickey to be kidnapped. Donald Duck is then arrested for the kidnapping
Kidnapping

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 of Mickey, as he is considered to be the chief suspect due to their rivalry. However, Donald did later get the charges dismissed due to lack of evidence. Walt Disney
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Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
, in his Wonderful World of Color, would sometimes make reference to the rivalry. Walt one time had presented Donald with a gigantic birthday cake
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 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.

The rivalry between Mickey and Donald has also been shown in Disney's House of Mouse
Disney's House of Mouse

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. 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. However, in later episodes Donald accepted that Mickey was the founder and worked with Mickey as a partner to make the club profitable.

Mickey Mouse has failed to realize how much Donald does not like him at times, and always counts him as one of his best friends. Despite the rivalry, Donald seems to be an honest friend of Mickey's , and will be faithful to him in tough situations, such as working with Mickey and Goofy as a team akin to the Three Musketeers.

Donald in comics

While Donald's cartoons enjoy vast popularity in the United States
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 and around the world, his weekly and monthly comic books enjoy their greatest popularity in many Europe
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an countries, especially Denmark
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, Norway
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 and Finland
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, but also Germany
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, Italy
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, the Netherlands
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, and Sweden
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. Most of them are produced and published by the Italian branch of the Walt Disney Company in Italy and by Egmont
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 in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. In Germany, the comics are published by Ehapa which has since become part of the Egmont empire. Donald-comics are also being produced in The Netherlands and France. Donald also has been appeared in Japanese comics published by Kodansha
Kodansha

is the largest Japanese publisher, headquartered in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon , Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzo, Weekly Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten....
 and Tokyopop
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.

According to the INDUCKS, which is a database about Disney comics worldwide, American, Italian and Danish stories have been reprinted in the following countries. In most of them, publications still continue: Australia
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, Austria
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, Argentina
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, Belgium
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, Brazil
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, Bulgaria
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, Canada
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, the People's Republic of China
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, Colombia
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, Czech Republic
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, Denmark
Denmark

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 (Faroe Islands
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), Egypt
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, Estonia
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, Finland
Finland

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, France
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, Germany
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, Greece
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, Guyana
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, Hungary
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, Iceland
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, India
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, Indonesia
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, Israel
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, Italy
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, Japan
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, Latvia
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, Lithuania
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, Mexico
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, the Netherlands
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, Norway
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, Poland
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, Portugal
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, Romania
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, Russia
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, Saudi Arabia
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, Slovakia
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, Spain
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, Sweden
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, Thailand
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, Turkey
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, the United Kingdom
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, the United States
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, and the former Yugoslavia
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.

Early development

Though a 1931 Disney publication called Mickey Mouse Annual mentioned a character named Donald Duck, the character's first appearance in comic-strip
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 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
Ted Osborne

Ted Osborne was an United States writer of comics, radio shows and animated films, remembered for his contributions to the creation and refinement, during the 1930s, of Walt Disney cartoon characters....
 was the primary writer of these strips, with Al Taliaferro
Al Taliaferro

Charles Alfred Taliaferro , known simply as Al Taliaferro, was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate....
 as his artist. Osborne 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 book
Comic book

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s. The eighteen-page story, written by Federico Pedrocchi, is the first to feature Donald as an adventurer rather than simply a comedic character. Fleetway
Fleetway

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 in England
England

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 also began publishing comic-book stories featuring the duck.

Developments under Taliaferro

A daily Donald Duck comic strip drawn by Taliaferro and written by Bob Karp
Bob Karp

Robert Louis Karp was an USA comics writer. He began working for the Walt Disney Company in the 1930s, and from 1938 to 1974, he wrote the scripts for the daily Donald Duck newspaper strips....
 began running in the United States
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 on February 2, 1938; the Sunday strip began the following year. Taliaferro and Karp created an even larger cast of characters for Donald's world. He got a new St. Bernard
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 named Bolivar, and his family
Duck family

The Duck family is a fictional character family created by The Walt Disney Company. Its best known member is Donald Duck....
 grew to include cousin Gus Goose
Gus Goose

Gus Goose is a fictional goose created by the Walt Disney Company for its various animated cartoons and comic books. Gus is Donald Duck's cousin, and the grandnephew of Grandma Duck....
 and grandmother Elvira Coot
Elvira Coot

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. Donald's new rival girlfriends were Donna and Daisy Duck
Daisy Duck

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. Taliaferro also gave Donald his very own automobile, a 1934 Belchfire Runabout, in a 1938 story.

Developments under Barks

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In 1942, Western Publishing
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 began creating original comic-book stories about Donald and other Disney characters. Bob Karp worked on the earliest of these, a story called "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold
Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold

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". The new publisher meant new illustrators, however: Carl Barks
Carl Barks

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 and Jack Hannah
Jack Hannah

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. Barks would later repeat the treasure-hunting
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 theme in many more stories.

Barks soon took over the major development of the comic-book version of the duck as both writer and illustrator. Under his pen, the comic version of Donald diverged even further from his animated counterpart, becoming more adventurous, less temperamental, and more eloquent. Black Pete
Black Pete

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 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
Duckburg

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, which he populated with a host of supporting players, including Gladstone Gander
Gladstone Gander

Gladstone Gander is a Walt Disney fictional character created by comic artist and writer Carl Barks for Western Publishing. Gladstone first appeared in the story "Wintertime Wager" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #88 ....
 (1948), Gyro Gearloose
Gyro Gearloose

Gyro Gearloose is a fictional character, an Anthropomorphism chicken created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company. He is part of the Scrooge McDuck Scrooge McDuck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge and anyone who is associated with them....
 (1952), Uncle Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a Glasgow anthropomorphic duck created by Carl Barks that first appeared in Four Color Comics #178, Christmas on Bear Mountain, published by Dell Comics in December, 1947....
 (1947), Magica de Spell
Magica De Spell

Magica De Spell is a fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, a witch created by Carl Barks. She constantly steals or attempts to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One Dime, which she believes will play a vital role in magically obtaining the same fabulous wealth of its owner....
 (1961), Flintheart Glomgold
Flintheart Glomgold

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 (1956), the Beagle Boys (1951), April, May and June (1953), Neighbour Jones
Neighbour Jones

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 (1944) and John D. Rockerduck
John D. Rockerduck

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 (1961). Many of Taliaferro's characters made the move to Barks' world as well, including Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Barks placed Donald in both domestic and adventure scenarios, and Uncle Scrooge became one of his favorite characters to pair up with Donald. Scrooge's popularity grew, and by 1952, the character had a comic book of his own. At this point, Barks concentrated his major efforts on the Scrooge stories, and Donald's appearances became more focused on comedy or he was recast as Scrooge's reluctant helper, following his rich uncle around the globe.

Further developments

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
Dick Kinney

Dick Kinney was a Disney comic book writer who worked mostly on Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories. He was the writer who, along with artist Al Hubbard , created Fethry Duck and Hard Haid Moe....
 (1917–1985) and Al Hubbard
Al Hubbard

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 (1915–1984) created Donald's cousin Fethry Duck
Fethry Duck

In Brazilian and Italian stories, Fethry is a major character depicted in various occupations, including as a reporter and comic strip artist for Scrooge McDuck's newspaper....
.

The American artists Vic Lockman and Tony Strobl
Tony Strobl

Anthony Joseph Strobl was an USA comics artist and animator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Cleveland School of Art from 1933?37, with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who actually got some help from Strobl creating Superman....
 (1915–1991), who were working directly for the American comic books, created Moby Duck
Moby Duck

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. Strobl was one of the most productive Disney artists of all time, and drew a lot of stories which Barks wrote after his retirement. In the 1990s, these scripts were re-drawn by Dutch artist Daan Jippes
Daan Jippes

Daan Jippes is a cartoonist, who has worked with Disney comics and other comics. He is admired by his fans for his lively emulation of Carl Barks' drawing style, and was therefore chosen by Egmont to redraw some old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1970s, originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey, Kay Wright and Tony Strobl...
.

Italian publisher Mondadori created many of the stories that were published throughout Europe. They also introduced numerous new characters who are today well known in Europe. One example is Donald Duck's alter-ego, a superhero
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 called Paperinik
Paperinik

Paperinik is a comic book superhero, Donald Duck's alter ego. Donald originally created his superheroic identity as a means of secretly seeking revenge against relatives such as Scrooge McDuck and Gladstone Gander, but soon found himself fighting other menaces....
 in Italian
Italian language

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, created by Guido Martina (1906–1991) and Giovan Battista Carpi
Giovan Battista Carpi

Giovan Battista Carpi was an Italy comics artist. He worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although he occasionally drew Mickey Mouse as well....
 (1927–1991).

Giorgio Cavazzano
Giorgio Cavazzano

Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italy comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for Romano Scarpa. He made stories about The Walt Disney Company characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and others....
 and Carlo Chendi created Honkey Go-Kart (Umperio Bogarto in Italian), a detective whose name is an obvious parody on Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart

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. They also created O.K Quack, an extraterrestrial Duck who landed on earth in a spaceship in the shape of a coin. He however lost his spaceship, and befriended Scrooge, and now is allowed to search through his moneybin time after time, looking for his ship.

Romano Scarpa
Romano Scarpa

Romano Scarpa was one of the most famous Italy creators of Disney comics....
 (1927–2005), who was a very important and influential Italian Disney artist, created Brigitta McBridge
Brigitta McBridge

Brigitta MacBridge is a comic book and cartoon character from the Scrooge McDuck universe created by artist Romano Scarpa for The Walt Disney Company....
, a female Duck who is madly in love with Scrooge. Her affections are never answered by him, though, but she keeps trying. Scarpa also came up with Dickie Duck, the granddaughter of Glittering Goldie (Scrooge's possible love-interest from his days in the Klondike) and Kildare Coot, a nephew of Grandma Duck.

Italian artist Corrado Mastantuono
Corrado Mastantuono

Corrado Mastantuono is an Italian comic book artist.Born in Rome, Mastantuono worked in the animation field until 1989, and then started to work for the Italian magazine L'Eternauta....
 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
William Van Horn

William Van Horn has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. He draws mostly Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and he has also written and/or illustrated stories based on the animated series DuckTales....
 also introduced a new character: Rumpus McFowl
Rumpus McFowl

Rumpus McFowl is a fictional character of the Scrooge McDuck universe, created by William van Horn in 1994. Van Horn is still the only artist to have used the character....
, 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
Daniel Branca

Daniel Branca was an Argentina comic artist.Born in Buenos Aires, Branca got interested in comics and arts at an early age, and started his career working for a children's magazine at 14....
 (1951–2005) and script-writers Paul Halas and Charlie Martin created Sonny Seagull, an orphan who befriends Huey, Dewey and Louie, and his rival, Mr. Phelps.

The most productive Duck-artist today is Victor Arriagada Rios, who is better known under the name Vicar. He has his own studio where he and his assistants draw the stories sent in by Egmont. Vicar created the character Oono, a prehistoric princess who traveled to Duckburg in the 1990s by using Gyro's time-machine.

The best-known and most popular Duck-artist of this time is Keno Don Rosa. He started doing Disney comics in 1987 for the American publisher Gladstone. He later worked briefly for the Dutch editors, but moved to work directly for Egmont soon afterwards. He created a lot of sequels to Barks' stories, and even a 12-part series of stories about the life of Scrooge McDuck, which won him two Eisner
Eisner

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 awards. Not all Barks-fans are happy with his work, though, and some claim he's destroying Barks' carefully built world.

Other important artists who have worked with Donald are Freddy Milton
Freddy Milton

Freddy Milton is a Denmark comic-book writer-artist, best known for his work on Disney comics, Woody Woodpecker and Gnuff....
 and Daan Jippes
Daan Jippes

Daan Jippes is a cartoonist, who has worked with Disney comics and other comics. He is admired by his fans for his lively emulation of Carl Barks' drawing style, and was therefore chosen by Egmont to redraw some old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1970s, originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey, Kay Wright and Tony Strobl...
, who made 18 ten-pagers which experts claim are as good as Barks' work.

Japanese artist Shiro Amano
Shiro Amano

is a Japanese people mangaka who has worked on several projects, including his adaption on the popular Kingdom Hearts . ...
 worked with Donald on the graphic novel Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts

is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts , it is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company....
 based on the Disney-Squaresoft videogame.

Donald Duck in Scandinavia

Donald Duck (Kalle Anka in Sweden, Aku Ankka in Finland, Anders And in Denmark and Donald Duck in Norway) is a very popular character in Scandinavian countries. In the mid-1930s, Robert S. Hartman
Robert S. Hartman

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, 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 published by Sagokonst. Since the Disney characters on the cards appeared to be exactly 'on-model', Hartman asked the studio to create a local version of the English-language Mickey Mouse Weekly. In 1937 L'Ateljé Dekoratör began publishing Musse Pigg Tidningen (Mickey Mouse Magazine), which had high production values and spanned 23 issues; most of the magazine's content came from local producers, while some material consisted of reprints from Mickey Mouse Weekly. The comic anthology ended in 1938. Hartman helped Disney establish offices in all Scandinavian countries before he left Disney in 1941. Donald became the most popular of the Disney characters in Scandinavia. 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 year 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. Tim Pilcher and Brad Books, authors of The Essential Guide to World Comics, described the Donald anthologies as "the Scandinavian equivalent of the UK's Beano
The Beano

The Beano comic is a United Kingdom children's comic book, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.The comic first appeared on 26 July 1938 and was published weekly....
 or Dandy
The Dandy

The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom. It is published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's second longest running comic, second only to Detective Comics ....
, a comic that generations have grown up with, from grandparents to grandchildren."

Hannu Raittila, an author, says that Finnish people recognize an aspect of themselves in Donald; Raittila cites that Donald attempts to retrieve himself from "all manner of unexpected and unreasonable scrapes using only his wits and the slim resources he can put his hands on, all of which meshes nicely with the popular image of Finland as driftwood in the crosscurrents of world politics." Scandinavian voters placing "protest votes" typically write "Donald Duck" as the candidate.

Disney Theme Parks

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Donald Duck has played a major role in many Disney theme parks over the years. He has actually been seen in more attractions and shows at the parks than Mickey Mouse has. He has appeared over the years in such attractions as Mickey Mouse Revue
Mickey Mouse Revue

The Mickey Mouse Revue was an indoor stage show acted by audio-animatronic performers in the Fantasyland area of Magic Kingdom park and was one of the three original attractions on its opening day and is a current attraction at Tokyo Disneyland....
, Mickey's PhilharMagic
Mickey's PhilharMagic

Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 3-D film attraction found at the Magic Kingdom theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort and at Hong Kong Disneyland....
, Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years
Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years

Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years is an exhibit about the history of Disneyland. It is located on Main Street, U.S.A. in the Opera House, which since 1965 had housed Great Moments with Mr....
, Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros
Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros

Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros is a dark ride housed within the pyramid-shaped Mexico pavilion, at the Epcot theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida....
 and the updated version of It's a Small World. He also is seen in the parks as a meet-and-greet character.

One long-ago-scrapped idea was also to have a bumper boat ride themed to Donald Duck.

Beyond Disney

  • Donald is the only popular film and television cartoon character to appear as a mascot
    Mascot

    The term mascot ? defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck ? colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or Brand....
     for a major American university: a licensing agreement between Disney and the University of Oregon
    University of Oregon

    The University of Oregon is a State university, coeducational research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The second oldest public university in the state, and the flagship school of the Oregon public university system, UO was founded in 1876, and graduated its first class two years later....
     allows the school's sports teams to use Donald's image as its "Fighting Duck
    The Oregon Duck

    The Oregon Duck is the University of Oregon's mascot, based on The Walt Disney Company Donald Duck character through a special license agreement....
    " mascot. In 1984, Donald Duck was named an honorary alumnus of the University of Oregon during his 50th birthday celebration. During a visit to the Eugene Airport
    Eugene Airport

    Eugene Airport , also known as Mahlon Sweet Field, is a public airport located 7 miles northwest of Eugene, Oregon, in Lane County, Oregon, Oregon....
    , 3,000 to 4,000 fans gathered for the presentation of an academic cap and gown to Donald. Thousands of area residents signed a congratulatory scroll for Donald, and that document is now part of Disney's corporate archives.


  • In the 1940s, Donald was adopted as an unofficial mascot by brazilian sports club Botafogo
    Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas

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     after argentinian cartoonist Lorenzo Mollas, who was working in Brazil at the time, drew him with the club's soccer uniform. Mollas chose Donald because he complains and fights for his rights, like the club's managers at those years, and also because, being a duck, he doesn't lose his ellegance while moving in the water (an allusion to rowing).


  • Donald's name and image are used on numerous commercial products, one example being Donald Duck brand orange juice
    Orange juice

    Orange juice is a popular beverage. It is a source of vitamin C , potassium, folic acid . Citrus juices also contain flavonoids that are believed to have beneficial health effects....
    , introduced by Citrus World in 1940.


  • In the 1950s, an early Mad Magazine
    Mad (magazine)

    Mad is an United States humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952.The last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line, the magazine offers satire on all aspects of American life and pop culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures....
     parody of Mickey Mouse
    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
     (called "Mickey Rodent", written by "Walt Dizzy") featured "Darnold Duck", whose quacky voice had to be "translated" for the readers, and who was shamed into finally wearing pants.


  • Although Donald's military service has most been recognized as him in the US Army from his wartime cartoons (and to a lesser extent having Donald in the US Navy from Duck Tales), Walt Disney had authorized Donald to be used as a mascot for the US Coast Guard. The Coast Guard image shows a fierce-looking Donald Duck dressed in a pirate's outfit, appearing vigilant against any potential threats to the coastal regions in the United States. This image is still often used on many Coast Guard bases and Coast Guard cutters today.


  • In Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
    , a comic book artist named Charlie Christensen got into a legal dispute with Disney when his creation Arne Anka
    Arne Anka

    Arne Anka is a Sweden comic strip drawn by Charlie Christensen under the pseudonym Alexander Barks from 1983 to 1995. The title character closely resembles Donald Duck ....
     looked similar to Donald Duck (albeit Arne is a pessimistic drunkard). However Charlie made a mockery of the legal action, and staged a fake death for his character, who then had plastic surgery performed and reappeared as Arne X with a more crow-like beak. He later purchased a strap-on duck beak from a novelty gift shop, pointing out that "If Disney are planning to give me any legal action all I have to do is remove my fake beak."


  • In 1991, the Disney Corporation sued the Israeli
    Israelis

    Israelis are citizens of the modern state of Israel regardless of religious heritage or Ethnicity, including most numerously Jews, Muslims, Arab Christians, Arabs, Druze, Circassians, and others....
     caricaturist Dudu Geva
    Dudu Geva

    Dudu Geva . An israel artist, writer, cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator. Considered the most well-known and beloved Israeli comic creator....
     for copyright infringement
    Copyright infringement

    Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works....
    , claiming his character "Donald Dach" in the story "Moby Duck" was a ripoff of Donald. The Courts found in their favor and forced Geva to pay for the legal expenses and remove his book from the shelves. More mildly, the character Howard The Duck
    Howard the Duck

    Howard the Duck is a comic book fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny animal" trapped on human-domi...
    's original design was modified to include pants allegedly due to pressure from Disney.


  • In 2005, Donald received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
    Hollywood Walk of Fame

    The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
     at 6840 Hollywood Blvd joining other fictional characters such as Mickey Mouse
    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
    , Bugs Bunny
    Bugs Bunny

    Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
    , Daffy Duck
    Daffy Duck

    Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball comedy film" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye, who were more popular ear...
    , Woody Woodpecker
    Woody Woodpecker

    Woody Woodpecker is an animation fictional character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio animation studio and distributed by Universal Studios....
    , The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
    , Winnie the Pooh
    Winnie the Pooh

    Winnie the Pooh is a Walt Disney Company Media franchise, based on animated fictional characters who have been featured as part of the List of Disney characters....
    , Kermit the Frog
    Kermit the Frog

    Kermit the Frog is a Muppet, one of puppeteer Jim Henson's most famous creations, first introduced in 1955. Kermit was performed by Henson until his death in 1990....
    , Godzilla
    Godzilla

    is a kaiju from the Godzilla series of science fiction films. He was first seen in the 1954 in film film Godzilla and has appeared in 28 films to date, all of which were produced by Toho As one of the most iconic characters in film history, Godzilla has also appeared in numerous Godzilla , Godzilla video games, novels and Godzilla in popula...
     and Snow White
    Snow White

    Snow White is the title fictional character of a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm....
    .


  • Donald's fame has led Disney to license the character for a number of video games.


Kingdom Hearts series

Donald is a major character in the Kingdom Hearts series, being one of the two sidekick
Sidekick

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s of Sora alongside Goofy
Goofy

Goofy is an animated cartoon character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends....
. Here, he is the court wizard of Disney Castle. He is sent on a mission with Goofy by King Mickey
Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
 to find and aid the Keyblade Master, which they do. Initially, Donald only seems to see Sora as an asset to track down King Mickey, going so far are to sort-of lie to him about being able to find his lost friends in order to convince him to accompany them; however, he soon grows to deeply care for Sora as a friend. Donald's famous temper remains in the series, and often gets the group into trouble. While not the most skilled magic-user in the series, he is shown to be quite proficient in basic elemental attacks and healing spells. He also seems to specialize in unique, explosive spells that resemble fireworks
Fireworks

A firework is classified as a low explosive material pyrotechnics device used primarily for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display....
, as well as transfiguration; in fact, whenever Sora, Donald, and Goofy change shape in a world, it is usually Donald's magic that does so. He is voiced by Tony Anselmo
Tony Anselmo

Tony Anselmo is an animator and cartoon voice actor and, since 1985, the voice of Donald Duck. Anselmo was trained by the original voice of Donald, Clarence Nash....
 in the English version and Koichi Yamadera
Koichi Yamadera

is a Japanese seiyu, actor and tarento from Shiogama, Miyagi, Miyagi Prefecture. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school, and is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment....
 in the Japanese version.

Appearances


Cartoon shorts

see Donald Duck filmography
Donald Duck filmography

This is a list of appearances made by Donald Duck in Disney features and cartoons....


Movies

  • The Reluctant Dragon
    The Reluctant Dragon (film)

    The Reluctant Dragon is an animated film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 20, 1941....
     (1941)
  • Saludos Amigos
    Saludos Amigos

    Saludos Amigos is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in the List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features....
     (1942)
  • The Three Caballeros
    The Three Caballeros

    The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, that plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and traditional animation....
     (1944)
  • Fun and Fancy Free
    Fun and Fancy Free

    Fun and Fancy Free is a feature film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was one of the "package films" that the studio produced in the 1940s....
     (1947)
  • Melody Time
    Melody Time

    Melody Time is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures. Made up of several sequences set to popular music and folk music, the film is, like Make Mine Music before it, the contemporary version of Fantasia , an ambitious film that proved to be a commercial disappointment upon its o...
     (1948)
  • Mickey's Christmas Carol
    Mickey's Christmas Carol

    Mickey's Christmas Carol is a twenty-four minute animation short film produced by The Walt Disney Company and originally released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 1983 by Buena Vista Distribution....
     (1983)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 fantasy film comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg and based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?....
     (1988)
  • Mickey's 60th Birthday
    Mickey's 60th Birthday

    Mickey's 60th Birthday is the 1988 television special broadcast on The Magical World of Disney on November 13, 1988 on NBC. As the title suggests, it was produced for the 60th anniversary of the Mickey Mouse character....
     (1988)
  • The Prince and the Pauper (1990)
  • A Goofy Movie
    A Goofy Movie

    A Goofy Movie is a 1995 in film animation musical film comedy film, produced by DisneyToon Studios and released to theatres by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution....
     (1995)
  • Fantasia 2000
    Fantasia 2000

    Fantasia 2000 is an United States animated film feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures....
     (1999)
  • Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
    Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

    Mickey's Once upon a Christmas is an Traditional animation Christmas movie made directly for video by The Walt Disney Company in 1999. It comprised of three separate segments, with narration by Kelsey Grammer....
     (1999)
  • Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse
    Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse

    Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse is the first direct-to-video movie spin-off from the Disney Channel animated television series House of Mouse....
     (2001)
  • Mickey's House of Villains
    Mickey's House of Villains

    Mickey's House of Villains is a direct-to-video film created by The Walt Disney Company. It is the film adaptation of the Disney Channel animated television series Disney's House of Mouse, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Daisy Duck and characters and villains that have appeared in past Disney productions....
     (2002)
  • Mickey's PhilharMagic
    Mickey's PhilharMagic

    Mickey's PhilharMagic is a 3-D film attraction found at the Magic Kingdom theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort and at Hong Kong Disneyland....
     (2003)
  • Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
    Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

    Mickey's Twice upon a Christmas is a computer animation direct-to-video film on VHS and DVD made by The Walt Disney Company in 2004. It is the sequel to Mickey's Once upon a Christmas from 1999....
     (2004)
  • Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
    Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

    Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers is a direct-to-video animation film adaptation of the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, p?re....
     (2004)
  • The Lion King 1½
    The Lion King 1½

    The Lion King 1? is an United States direct-to-video animation released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on February 10, 2004. The DVD went to the Disney Vault in January 2005....
     (2004)


Television series

  • DuckTales
    DuckTales

    DuckTales is an United States animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The show premiered on September 11, 1987 and ended on May 6, 1990....
     (1987–1990) (recurring guest)
  • Donald Duck Presents
    Donald Duck Presents

    Donald Duck Presents was a television series on Disney Channel beginning in 1983, which featured classic Disney shorts. Although Donald Duck shorts were the primary programming, additional cartoons featuring Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Chip 'n Dale, Pluto and others were also shown....
     (compilation of classic Disney shorts)
  • Donald's Quack Attack
    Donald's Quack Attack

    Donald's Quack Attack was a television series on The Disney Channel which featured The Walt Disney Company animation short films, especially those with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy....
     (compilation of classic Disney shorts)
  • Bonkers
    Bonkers (TV series)

    Bonkers is an animated American television series that aired from September 4, 1993 to December 21, 1995 in first-run syndication . The syndicated run was available both separately, and as part of The Disney Afternoon....
     (1993–1995) (cameo)
  • Quack Pack
    Quack Pack

    Quack Pack is an animated television series made by The Walt Disney Company. The show debuted in September 1996 as a part of the Disney Afternoon weekday afternoon programming block....
     (1996–1997)
  • Mickey Mouse Works
    Mickey Mouse Works

    Mickey Mouse Works is a television show that features the cartoon character Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated segments. It is somewhat of an update of Mickey's Mouse Tracks....
     (1999–2000)
  • House of Mouse
    Disney's House of Mouse

    Disney's House of Mouse is an United States animated television series, produced by Walt Disney Television, that originally aired from 2001 to 2003....
     (2001–2003)
  • Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
    Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

    Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is a children's television series, that premiered in prime time on Disney Channel on May 5, 2006. The program is part of the Playhouse Disney daily block of shows intended for preschoolers....
     (2006)


Video games

  • Donald Duck
  • Donald Duck's Playground
    Donald Duck's Playground

    Donald Duck's Playground is a computer game for the Commodore 64, based on the Walt Disney cartoon and comic book character Donald Duck. It was also ported to the IBM PCjr, Apple II, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga....
     (1984)
  • Donald's Alphabet Chase (1988)
  • Quackshot
    Quackshot

    Quackshot is a platform game released for the Sega Genesis on December 19, 1991. It stars Donald Duck and his three nephews, Huey Dewey and Louie, as treasure-hunters....
     (1991)
  • The Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck
    Lucky Dime Caper

    The Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck is a platform game released for Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear in 1991. It is the 8-bit counterpart to Quackshot , another Disney-licensed game which also features Donald Duck as the main character....
     (1991)
  • World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
    World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

    World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck is a Sega Mega Drive video game that was produced by Sega of America and released in 1992....
     (1992)
  • Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck
    Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck

    Deep Duck Trouble is a Sega Master System and Game Gear title originally released in 1993. It is a The Walt Disney Company-licensed game developed by Sega....
     (1993)
  • Disney's Magical Quest 3 Starring Mickey and Donald
    Disney's Magical Quest

    Disney's Magical Quest, known in Japan as Mikii no Majikaru Adobenchyaa , is a Disney platform game series released by Capcom. The games star Mickey Mouse and, depending on the game version, either Minnie Mouse or Donald Duck, who must defeat an evil villain, always played by Peg-Leg Pete....
     (1995), (2005)
  • Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow
    Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow

    Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow, also known as Donald Starring in Maui Mallard in Europe, and in Japan is a platform game, released in 1996 for the Personal computer, Game Boy, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Mega Drive video game console....
     (1996)
  • Disney's Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers (2000)
  • Mickey's Speedway USA
    Mickey's Speedway USA

    Mickey's Speedway USA is a The Walt Disney Company racing game for the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color, developed by Rare and published by Nintendo....
     (2000)
  • Disney Golf (2002)
  • Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows
    Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows

    Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows, also known as Disney's Donald Duck PK or simply PK, is an action-adventure game video game released in by Ubisoft....
     (2002)
  • Kingdom Hearts
    Kingdom Hearts

    is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts , it is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company....
     (2002)
  • Kingdom Hearts Final Mix (2002)
  • Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
    Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

    is an action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and Japanese studio Jupiter and published by Square Enix in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance. The game serves as an intermediary between the two larger-scale PlayStation 2 games in the Kingdom Hearts series....
     (2004)
  • Kingdom Hearts II
    Kingdom Hearts II

    is an action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and published by Disney Interactive Studios and Square Enix in 2005 for the Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation 2 video game console....
     (2006)
  • Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ (2007)
  • Kingdom Hearts coded
    Kingdom Hearts coded

    is a puzzle video game developed and published by Square Enix, in collaboration with the Walt Disney Internet Group for mobile phones. It is an installment in the Kingdom Hearts that is set after the events of the most recent installment, Kingdom Hearts II....
     (TBA: North America, Europe, Australia) (2008, Japan)
  • Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
    Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

    is an upcoming action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable. It is an installment in the Kingdom Hearts series that focuses on Characters of Kingdom Hearts#Terra, Ven, and Aqua, characters briefly featured in Kingdom Hearts II#Final Mix+....
     (TBA: North America, Europe, Australia) (Summer 2009, Japan)
  • Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
    Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

    is an upcoming action role-playing game video game developer and video game publisher by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS with assistance from h.a.n.d....
     (Unconfirmed Appearance) (Spring 2009, Japan) (August 2009, North America) (TBA: Europe, Australia)


Famous illustrators

  • Carl Barks
    Carl Barks

    Carl Barks was a famous The Walt Disney Company illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , Gyro Gearloose , Flintheart Glomgold , John D....
  • Luciano Bottaro
    Luciano Bottaro

    Luciano Bottaro was an Italian comic book artist.Bottaro's characteristic style is highly appreciated in Europe - many countries publish his comics ....
  • Giovan Battista Carpi
    Giovan Battista Carpi

    Giovan Battista Carpi was an Italy comics artist. He worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although he occasionally drew Mickey Mouse as well....
  • Giorgio Cavazzano
    Giorgio Cavazzano

    Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italy comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for Romano Scarpa. He made stories about The Walt Disney Company characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and others....
  • William Van Horn
    William Van Horn

    William Van Horn has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. He draws mostly Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and he has also written and/or illustrated stories based on the animated series DuckTales....
  • Daan Jippes
    Daan Jippes

    Daan Jippes is a cartoonist, who has worked with Disney comics and other comics. He is admired by his fans for his lively emulation of Carl Barks' drawing style, and was therefore chosen by Egmont to redraw some old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1970s, originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey, Kay Wright and Tony Strobl...
  • Don Rosa
    Don Rosa

    Keno Don Hugo Rosa is an United States comic book writer and illustrator best known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other The Walt Disney Company characters....
  • Marco Rota
    Marco Rota

    Marco Rota is an Italy Disney comics who served as editor-in-chief of Disney Italia from 1974 to 1988.BiographyRota was born in Milan....
  • Romano Scarpa
    Romano Scarpa

    Romano Scarpa was one of the most famous Italy creators of Disney comics....
  • Tony Strobl
    Tony Strobl

    Anthony Joseph Strobl was an USA comics artist and animator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Cleveland School of Art from 1933?37, with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who actually got some help from Strobl creating Superman....
  • Al Taliaferro
    Al Taliaferro

    Charles Alfred Taliaferro , known simply as Al Taliaferro, was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate....
  • Vicar
  • Tetsuya Nomura
    Tetsuya Nomura

    is a Japanese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix , perhaps best known for his work on both the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series....
  • Shiro Amano
    Shiro Amano

    is a Japanese people mangaka who has worked on several projects, including his adaption on the popular Kingdom Hearts . ...
  • Naci Tasdögen
    Naci Tasdögen

    Naci Tasd?gen is a Turkey actor.He performed in the Emret Komutanim and O Simdi Asker series. He is known for imitating Donald Duck's voice in Turkey....


Further reading

  • Ariel Dorfman
    Ariel Dorfman

    File:DorfmanA1.jpgAriel Dorfman is a Chilean-United States novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985....
    , Armand Mattelart
    Armand Mattelart

    Armand Mattelart is a Belgian sociologist and well known as a Leftist French scholar. His work deals with media, culture and communication, specially in their historical and international dimensions....
    , David Kunzle (trans.), How to Read Donald Duck
    How to Read Donald Duck

    How to read Donald Duck is a political analysis book, by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, published in Chile in 1971.Written in the form of essay , the book is an analysis of mass literature, specifically the Disney comics published for the Latin American market....
    : Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
    ISBN 0-88477-023-0 (Marxist Critique)
  • Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: 50 Years of Happy Frustration, Courage Books, May 1990 ISBN 978-0894715303.


donald duck was invented by Carl Barks in 1934

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