Scrooge McDuck's Childhood home

[Scroogerello]

Aug 30, 2018 20:45:11 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Jul 20, 2016 8:36:36 GMT That Duckfan said:

I have the excerpt here. Translation's mine.

WvH: How old would you estimate Donald?
Barks: He's kind of hard to gauge. I would say he's a teenager.
Jippes and WvH (highly surprised): Really?
WvH: I would have said he was in his mid-twenties...
Jippes: He's an adult!
Barks: To me, Donald is more like a 15- or 16-year-old, who is suddenly confronted with all kind of responsibilities that he isn't ready for yet. He owns a house, has to bring up his nephews, go to work, but completely lacks the experience to know how.
Jippes: Most people see Donald and the nephews as a single-parent family, with Donald as the 25- or 30-year-old parent, but the way you look at it, Donald's more of an older brother to the nephews. Maybe that's why they can be so mean to one another...

Wait, I discover only now this, and I am highly surprised, like Jippes and WvH 

Barks saw Donald as a teenager? So we always get those stories wrong?
Maybe Barks was a bit projecting on Donald his own life experience in this interview. I really cannot imaging Barks's Donald younger than 27!   

I mentioned it elsewhere, I think, but in Taliaferro's strips Donald was "too young to join the army", i.e. a teenager as well ( inducks.org/story.php?c=YD+45-03-03 ). I guess Donald's living situation (on-again off-again girlfriend, no stable job) was seen as more typical of a teenager's life than that of a young adult. 

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

I can clearly picture Taliaferro's duck as a late teenager.
But Barks's one not!
Ok, maybe me seeing him in his early 30's is based on the contemporary perception of ages that we have today.
The 30's of today are the 20's of Barks age. Yet, a bit older than a teenager.