Donald 鸭 on 万圣节前夕

Four years after the appearance of Mickey Mouse, in 1934 born a character destined to fortunate happening equally: Donald Duck. This is a gosling, devised from Walt 迪士尼 and realized graphically from Ub Iwerks, but it is thanks to great designer Al Tagliaferro that Donald 鸭 acquired that graphical style, funny and characteristic, that has contributed to giving to the comic strips amusing scenes. Donald 鸭 服装 perennially like a sailor, with the buttons gilds and a little hat to that the ace characterizes he. Initially Donald 鸭 made from companion to Mickey Mouse, but later on...

Early debut
Donald may well have made his first printed appearance in Mickey 老鼠, 鼠标 Annual 3 (published 1932; the annual for 1933), a 128-page British hardback. This book included the poem Mickey's Hoozoo, Witswitch and Wotswot, which listed all of Mickey's then-current 稗 animal 老友记 (most of Disney's major characters developed out of this 稗 scenario). Among them was a 小鸭 named Donald Duck. Besides the name, however, there is little similarity between this character and the one introduced in The Wise Little Hen during 1934. Mickey 老鼠, 鼠标 Annual 3 was drawn entirely 由 Wilfred...

Donald in animation

[edit]Early appearances
For 更多 details on this topic, see Donald 鸭 filmography.


Donald 鸭 as he first appeared in The Wise Little Hen
According to Leonard Maltin in his introduction to The Chronological Donald - Volume 1, Donald was created 由 Walt 迪士尼 when he heard Clarence Nash doing his "duck" voice while reciting "Mary had a little lamb". Mickey 老鼠, 鼠标 had 迷失 some of his edge since becoming a role model for children and 迪士尼 wanted a character that could portray some of the 更多 negative character traits he could no longer bestow on Mickey.
Donald 鸭 first...