Happy Birthday, Donna Duck! Happy Birthday, 313!

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Postby Flintheart Glomgold » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:33 pm

As of today, the Cartoon 'Don Donald' is turning 70 years old. Some Disney-publishers think, thus Daisy Duck is turning 70 now, too. But I think of Donna Duck and Daisy Duck as of two different characters. Even Al Taliaferro thought so and had used her as an own character, which Daisy eventually met. Donna broke up with Donald in favor of her fiancé, Manuel Gonzales, who was a caricature of Al Taliaferro's colleague by the same name, who was responsible for the Mickey Mouse Sunday page. Daisy's real debut wasn't until 1940's 'Mr. Duck Steps Out'.

But don't forget the perhaps even bigger debut of Donald's Belchfire Runabout, called 313. He also appeared in said Movie, although without his license plate.
Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp introduced it to the dailies starting July 1st 1938. It's license plate appeared starting March 22nd 1940. Carl Barks used Donalds car 1943 for the first time: in his 10-pager "Good Neighbours".

I made a little picture in honour of those two:
http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... nnaba5.jpg

(Big credit for this picture goes to Henrieke, who made me understand the art of drawing Ducks better, helped me with reshaping the Ducks and even improved their poses in a big way. Thank you. Without your help, this picture wouldn't look half as good!)
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Postby Robb_K » Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:16 am

I agree with you that Donna and Daisy are too different characters. Nice drawings! Here is a drawing I made of Daisy:

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Postby Flintheart Glomgold » Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:40 pm

Thank you Rob!
I like your Daisy very much.

I recently heard of Gorm Transgaard doing the art of at least one of his comics and Kari Korhonen got into doing his own art a while ago, too. Both of whom I think as great authors of Disney-Comics, like you. Are you planing in doing something similar, at some point?
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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:21 pm

Flintheart Glomgold wrote:Donna Duck and Daisy Duck]I made a little picture in honour of those two:
http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... nnaba5.jpg

I've tried to make a resized version on ImageShack, for use on the board:
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big picture: http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... nnaba5.jpg


A technical problem for me is that I don't know how I did the resize.
Please see topic: Hosting services (ImageShack, etc.)
http://bb.mcdrake.nl/engdisney/viewtopic.php?t=206

I'm trying to find a way to keep pictures online and available, so that we can have (and keep) a fanbased art gallery.
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Postby Robb_K » Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:10 am

Hi Flintheart. I draw my storyboards of the stories I write as finished as I can, to try to get the idea across to the artist who does the final pencils. Yes, I hope my pencils will be good enough to be the final pencils some time in the future. I'd like to do my own inking, too. But, I'm not sure I'll ever be good enough for that (as it will take a lot of work to reach an acceptable level.

Gorm Transgaard is a good friend of mine. We used to work on stories together for Egmont, when I lived in Denmark.
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