tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post8310194693295343320..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "This Is Your Life, Donald Duck"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-40501257555053123602020-07-27T14:41:01.278-04:002020-07-27T14:41:01.278-04:00His parents might be Hortense McDuck and Quackmore...His parents might be Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck but they didn't raise him for long. In almost every incarnation from the AL Taliaferro comics and early Donald Duck cartoon specials like "This is Your Life, Donald Duck;" his grandma raised him. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-69337258275207083552015-11-26T01:12:16.335-05:002015-11-26T01:12:16.335-05:00I will never, ever understand your ideas about &qu...I will never, ever understand your ideas about "continuity."GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-80946225490295142032015-11-25T12:15:52.187-05:002015-11-25T12:15:52.187-05:00"If you don't mind the presence of Mickey..."If you don't mind the presence of Mickey & Goofy"… Why should we "mind" it ? It's a well-established fact, Don Rosa notwithstanding, that Mickey, Donald and Goofy are long-time friends, so it makes a lot of sense to see them portrayed as Donald's childhood friends. The only thing I could "mind" is that they don't <i>exploit</i> the fact that these are <i>Mickey</i> and <i>Goofy</i>: Mickey does not investigate, Goofy doesn't goof. But them <b>being</b> there, I find natural, and I'd even say necessary.Achille Talonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636339293230261724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-15232927881990532702015-01-13T11:18:13.787-05:002015-01-13T11:18:13.787-05:00Hmm...I think maybe you ARE the only one to believ...Hmm...I think maybe you ARE the only one to believe that about his upbringing :). Of course I know Rota's origin story (though I hadn't heard that bizarre "hatched from an egg bought at the market" thing--can you point me to a specific story that makes that claim?), and I know Rosa's (that he was bought up by Grandma, which seems to be commonly accepted nowadays), but I am unaware of any in-between stories like you're going for here (which is not, of course, to say that they couldn't exist--do they?).GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-42102561711225832892015-01-13T05:38:01.715-05:002015-01-13T05:38:01.715-05:00"So what do you think happened to his parents..."So what do you think happened to his parents?": it's hard to say. They may have died sometime before 1947, or they may be still alive in the present (1950's) and Donald occasionally visites them off-screen. As we know, Rosa wanted to use Hortense in "A Letter from Home", but his editors prevented him from doing so and so they were declared "officially dead"... though statements made outside a story should be taken with a grain of salt: for example, Matilda was also declared "officially dead" before the production of "A Letter from Home"; by the way, this story avoids the issue of what happened to them, neither affirming nor denying their death.<br /><br />Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that in my country (Italy) many stories say Donald hatched from an egg bought at the market (!) by Grandma Duck, and I strongly dislike this tradition, since I see the ducks as human beings and in my mind Quackmore Duck and Hortense McDuck are his parents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-36533498219030642922015-01-09T16:18:36.449-05:002015-01-09T16:18:36.449-05:00That's an awful lot of non-canon you've go...That's an awful lot of non-canon you've got there. So what do you think happened to his parents?GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-90160865594829639272015-01-09T16:08:13.141-05:002015-01-09T16:08:13.141-05:00"My understanding of this all is that was aba..."My understanding of this all is that was abandoned by his parents--for some unelucidated reason. He was reared by Grandma and Grandpa Duck": am I the only one to think that he was raised by his parents? I never liked the idea of Donald being raised by Grandma Duck, and for me the stories that include that idea are non-canon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-91818995179837442412014-02-28T17:29:53.795-05:002014-02-28T17:29:53.795-05:00Elaine said: "I note that Daisy has a headban... Elaine said: "I note that Daisy has a headband holding on her bow! Was that typical of how Strobl drew her?"<br /><br />Yes, it was:<br /><br />http://coa.inducks.org/simp.php?d1=da&d2=&d4=&creat=tony+strobl&exactpg=&kind=ciUnca Paspasunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-54801774738714126922014-02-27T21:08:29.897-05:002014-02-27T21:08:29.897-05:00Given the fact that this was modelled on the TV sh...Given the fact that this was modelled on the TV show which used old cartoons, I don't see any problem at all with the retelling of the Think-box story here. Fair use, in my mind, since the format sets you up for a trip down memory lane. If there had been extant American stories of Donald's adolescence or childhood, Lockman presumably would have used some of those, rather than making up material. But it is odd that Lockman didn't include, say, a short reference to Bear Mountain to explain how Scrooge came into Donald's life. I can understand his reluctance (and that of the makers of the cartoon TIYLDD) to get into why/how the nephews came to live with Donald, since we all know that it's very hard to touch that without getting into subjects such as Death or Seriously Delinquent Parents. <br /><br />As with the Rota scenario, you are left wondering how Donald could have nephews, since he seems to have no sibling!<br /><br />And, apropos of another conversation in another venue, I note that Daisy has a headband holding on her bow! Was that typical of how Strobl drew her? <br /><br />As for Bongo...I note that Bongo stories seemed to show up quite a bit in, say, digests (not sure if those were before or after this story). So he may in fact have been better known to the 1960 readers than Horace. Elainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-63849364682209606812014-02-25T08:29:54.211-05:002014-02-25T08:29:54.211-05:00I did use that story into my "personal headca...I did use that story into my "personal headcanon." In my mind, the stories of Barks and Rosa constitute the "core" of canon, although I can accept any other story as long is it doesn't directly contradict this core. Heck, I even include some cartoons, especially "A Wise Little Hen!" I remembered that Don Rosa once said that Don appeared to be 14 in this cartoon, which was released in 1934--hence Donald being born in 1920. My understanding of this all is that was abandoned by his parents--for some unelucidated reason. He was reared by Grandma and Grandpa Duck (Grandpa appears in some Stroble or Lockman stories) until Grandpa passed away. Then by age 14 he was living on his own in Barnyard Land, meaning that ducks come of age much earlier than we do.Sidioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17282176926249102077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-76683759048579363172014-02-21T19:22:59.127-05:002014-02-21T19:22:59.127-05:00Geo,
I read this in one of the Gladstone Series I...Geo,<br /><br />I read this in one of the Gladstone Series I digests. I found it quite pleasant, though it was amusing to note that Don, Gladstone, and Daisy looked almost exactly the same in their high-school days as they did in later life!<br /><br />ChrisChris Barathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-7761185881906225002014-02-21T07:31:06.169-05:002014-02-21T07:31:06.169-05:00Debbie's accurate in pinpointing the material ...Debbie's accurate in pinpointing the material directly lifted from the TV anthology episode. Here's a YT link to anyone who may not have seen it:<br /><br />http://youtu.be/vopTdYEIH6M<br /><br />Of course, "This is Your Life, Donald Duck" was just another framing device to stitch together old cartoons, but it's comforting to see Jack Hannah's involvement in the bridging sequences (he'd go to work for Walter Lantz shortly following this production.)<br /><br />The remarkable thing is the popularity of Scrooge McDuck at the time, yet they chose to leave him out... of course this was seven years prior to the "Scrooge McDuck and Money" featurette—but I'm amazed they didn't try and put snippets of the old Scot from "Spirit of '43" in there somehow to use Scrooge AND fill time!Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441890672931597080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-67847310585953049322014-02-20T22:07:07.490-05:002014-02-20T22:07:07.490-05:00Oh, no question, re comparative qualities. I cert...Oh, no question, re comparative qualities. I certainly don't much care for Bongo, but Mickey and the Beanstalk is just AWFUL (okay, the bit when Donald bugs out and tries to kill murder the cow is pretty amusing, but that's it).GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-74444534893289408592014-02-20T19:00:02.082-05:002014-02-20T19:00:02.082-05:00"Seriously, does anyone these days ever think..."Seriously, does anyone these days ever think of Fun and Fancy Free, apart from (possibly) "Say it with a Slap?" asks Geox.<br /><br />To be fair if ANYTHING people remeber from that movie is Willie the Gigant from Mickey and the Beanstalk segment who is a quasi-popular character. He was included in Mickey Christmas Crol, was recurring character in the recent "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" children animated show and made some cameos here and there ("House of the Mouse"). <br /><br /><br />In my opinion "Bongo" segment is actually much more fun then the "Beanstalk" one but I guess it's the matter of prefrance. <br /><br />Then agian this story is from the 60's so maybe people where more familiar with the movie back then (or at least Bongo character since the seqment was propably re-used on TV as part of some Disney TV special) Pan Miluśhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364446151493198587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-24080441409570296852014-02-20T01:30:43.696-05:002014-02-20T01:30:43.696-05:00OH HO! I truly had no idea that this was based on...OH HO! I truly had no idea that this was based on a cartoon. Clearly, I should have done some minimal amount of research before writing this. Thanks for that; I'll have to check it out. Certainly explains a thing or two.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-32418080297756401932014-02-20T01:22:06.843-05:002014-02-20T01:22:06.843-05:00I had three different printings of this at one poi...I had three different printings of this at one point. The original comic (as a back issue of course, I wasn't alive in 1960), Gladstone's reprinting of it in a Donald Duck Digest, and the later reprint where they plugged in Carl Barks' Think Box story (and added pie-cut pupils to the Ducks' eyes). This comic is an adaption/rewrite of a Walt Disney Presents TV episode, also titled This is Your Life, Donald Duck. http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/This_is_Your_Life,_Donald_Duck<br /><br />Jiminy Cricket hosting, the Zorro bit and all of the Disney characters showing up at the end are all taken from the episode, which may well be Grandma Duck's first animated appearance. Of course, rather than attempt to adapt all those clips from old Donald Duck shorts, Vic Lockman's script seems more in character for the comic book Duck.<br />Debbiehttp://www.fluffyandmervin.comnoreply@blogger.com