Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Sept 28, 2018 15:51:19 GMT
Don Rosa has made a number of unofficial cartoons/prints over the years, indexed at Comicartfans but not on INDUCKS due to their unlicensed nature. A lot of it is just sketches and drawings of familiar characters, but there are some comedic gems in there. I am sure, for example, that most of you know about the parodies of classic superhero comic covers with Duckburg characters.
One of these is this thing, indexed in 2011:
A lot of the prints are crossover parodies and I'm almost certain this is a parody of something, but I haven't the faintest idea what that something might be.
Nor do I have a clue who that female duck is. Is this just Daisy with a wig? Is this a duckified version of whoever is in the original that is being parodied, with no particular Duck character in mind? Or… could this be Della? Daisy-like duck with long hair, wearing a vaguely Donald-like sailor suit — one does wonder.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Sept 28, 2018 22:19:28 GMT
Rosa gave Daisy blue eyes (the reason why I graphically dislike his Daisy) and Della pie-eyes. It seems more reasonable to think that this is a reference to something, with Daisy playing the role of someone.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Sept 28, 2018 22:25:18 GMT
In general I do not like Rosa's blue-eyed ducks. He used blue eyes also on Scrooge and Donald to represent astonishment. In those moments they look too much 'graphically out-of-character'. Not because of the blue itself (in some covers Cavazzano puts some blue in Mickey's or Donald's eyes, and even if I do not like it much I am ok with that), but rather because those eyes look too human.
Rosa gave Daisy blue eyes (the reason why I graphically dislike his Daisy) and Della pie-eyes. It seems more reasonable to think that this is a reference to something, with Daisy playing the role of someone.
Well in the event that it was Della I still thought it would be a reference with something, except with Della playing whomever (possibly because the two characters of the original were siblings). Still, the blue eyes do look like an argument in favor of this being Daisy. Good point.
There remains the question of quite what is being parodied, though.
The duck girl is wearing what seems to be a Japanese schoolgirl sailor fuku suit, and those colorful paper cranes look like they are made from the origami Japanese art of paper folding.
There is a Japanese legend that says that if you fold 1000 paper cranes in a year, your wish will be granted.
That legend is mostly known with the story of Sadako Sasaki, a little Japanese girl who was diagnosed with leukemia after being exposed to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, at World War II. She heard of the legend and tried to make 1000 paper cranes so that she could heal from her illness, but died before she could finish them all.
Since then, she has had a memorial to her honor and become an icon of peace, and by extension, the origami crane became a symbol of peace.
The Don Rosa drawing seems to be a tribute to this.
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The duck girl is wearing what seems to be a Japanese schoolgirl sailor fuku suit, and those colorful paper cranes look like they are made from the origami Japanese art of paper folding.
That's what I figured. Though I wasn't sure since the collar looks different from the common type.
I don't quite see Rosa making a lighthearted parody of a girl who died with leukemia because of an atom bomb, so I'm guessing this specific drawing's in reference to some specific anime or so that used that visual archetype
Though the multicolored numerous paper cranes are still commonly used as a symbol of peace following this tragic story... maybe Don Rosa simply wanted to pay tribute to a tradition he felt simply looked beautiful...
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I don't quite see Rosa making a lighthearted parody of a girl who died with leukemia because of an atom bomb.
It definitely seems in bad taste, but I doubt it's a reference to anything else, and to be frank I wouldn't put it past Rosa, either. It reminds me of how he portrayed the sinking of the Titanic (1,517 deaths) in his "Life of Scrooge" series as if it was some kind of hilarious joke. He even shows the death of J.J. Astor, who indeed died during the sinking of the Titanic, like some comedic pratfall, and shows the passengers jumping to their deaths from the edge of the ship. It baffles how that sort if stuff gets past censors (although I Imagine a fan drawing like the one shown in this topic doesn't require any license from Disney, despite Rosa still making money off of them). Yuck.
Last Edit: Oct 6, 2018 15:42:59 GMT by Scroogerello
I don't quite see Rosa making a lighthearted parody of a girl who died with leukemia because of an atom bomb.
It definitely seems in bad taste, but I doubt it's a reference to anything else, and to be frank I wouldn't put it past Rosa, either. It reminds me of how he portrayed the sinking of the Titanic (1,517 deaths) in his "Life of Scrooge" series as if it was some kind of hilarious joke. He even shows the death of J.J. Astor, who indeed died during the sinking of the Titanic, like some comedic pratfall, and shows the passengers jumping to their deaths from the edge of the ship. It baffles how that sort if stuff gets past censors (although I Imagine a fan drawing like the one shown in this topic doesn't require any license from Disney, despite Rosa still making money off of them). Yuck.
On the other hand, I recall him being pretty upset when someone made a 9/11 joke about Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints.
Then again, people tend to be less sensitive about great tragedies the farther away they are in the past. Not much people will get upset about jokes involving the Titanic compared to World War II aftermaths or terrorist attacks in the new millenium.
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Then again, people tend to be less sensitive about great tragedies the farther away they are in the past. Not much people will get upset about jokes involving the Titanic compared to World War II aftermaths or terrorist attacks in the new millenium.
True, but the story was published some 25 years ago. Several people who survived the Titanic sinking as children and lost one or both of their parents in the disaster, were still alive at this point (the last Titanic survivor with memories of the disaster died as late as 2006). Of course, Disney comics were (and still are) a relatively obscure medium, which is probably why it went unnoticed, but if it had been a more high-profile production I imagine its disrespectfulness would have definitely sparked some outrage.