Post by That Duckfan on Mar 10, 2020 20:51:50 GMT
One thing I noticed in the recent "future headcanon" thread was the characters that we think of in our own Duckverse. Somebody might bring up Bella Duck or Darkwing Duck or some one-shot love interest, that I wouldn't have thought of in a million years. And no wonder.
INDUCKS lists, at this moment, a total 10.796 official characters -- of which 3645 appear in multiple stories. I've recently found myself scrolling through the list and coming across characters I'd never heard of or read about. Remember that time Moby Duck had a whole line dedicated to himself? Or the existence of Anacleto Mitraglia, Capri's answer to Neighbor Jones who looks like an early draft of Robbie Rotten.
That's what this thread is all about. Secondary, tertiary, and quartenary characters in the Disney comics mythology -- all the way down to Z-list one-hit-wonders.
I'd like to start with the Duckies universe, introduced in the Dutch weekly in 2000 to serve for that year's back cover 1-pagers. They're a long-running feature of the Dutch comics, going back to Barks and Gottfredson reprints in the '70s, but by the '90s Dutch artists where introducing their own concepts.
The Duckies essentially flesh out Huey, Dewey and Louie's school class for the 2000s. April, May and June got a modern day make-over in '98, and we get a diverse range of characters (an owl, a pig, a fox, an ostrich, a cat) to round out the class. One of the kids is Chang, one of the first major Asian characters. The Dutch had an advantage here, drawing from a long tradition of 'forest characters': a shared Brer Rabbit + Zeke Wolf universe.
I'm not the biggest fan of school settings in kids' stories (that's where kids spend all of their time alreadyyy), but there's a lot to be said for developing a consistent cast of characters as HDL's peers. Occasionally you'll get a character like Sonny Seagull, but him being a vagabond means his stories tend to go more toward urban exploration than the domestic comedy you see with the Duckies.
A similar universe was created in Italy around the same time, with Young Donnie Duck and his friends -- Millicent, Tom, Betty Lou and Louis. There's less diversity in design, with everyone being duckfowl, and the setting near Grandma Duck's farm is a little more village-like. There are other teachers, and even a new mayor character.
In this instance, I prefer the Duckies, but that's probably more out of familiarity with the Dutch school environment. You may think otherwise.
Hun is one of those one-pagers that's passed into the popular consciousness, one that only works in Dutch. Mr. Warbol gets annoyed with the kids' overuse of the word 'hun' ("them") where it should be 'zij' ("they"), something that's common in real life. He warns that the next person to say 'hun' has to treat the class for ice cream --- only for him to continue the history lesson about Attila the Hun... (Turns out the ice cream vendor also uses the incorrect form!)
Do you have any characters or universes that you'd like to bring up? Maybe they add something to the mythos, maybe they're a weird off-shoot from the 1960s, maybe it's a character associated with one particular artist. Please share!
INDUCKS lists, at this moment, a total 10.796 official characters -- of which 3645 appear in multiple stories. I've recently found myself scrolling through the list and coming across characters I'd never heard of or read about. Remember that time Moby Duck had a whole line dedicated to himself? Or the existence of Anacleto Mitraglia, Capri's answer to Neighbor Jones who looks like an early draft of Robbie Rotten.
That's what this thread is all about. Secondary, tertiary, and quartenary characters in the Disney comics mythology -- all the way down to Z-list one-hit-wonders.
I'd like to start with the Duckies universe, introduced in the Dutch weekly in 2000 to serve for that year's back cover 1-pagers. They're a long-running feature of the Dutch comics, going back to Barks and Gottfredson reprints in the '70s, but by the '90s Dutch artists where introducing their own concepts.
The Duckies essentially flesh out Huey, Dewey and Louie's school class for the 2000s. April, May and June got a modern day make-over in '98, and we get a diverse range of characters (an owl, a pig, a fox, an ostrich, a cat) to round out the class. One of the kids is Chang, one of the first major Asian characters. The Dutch had an advantage here, drawing from a long tradition of 'forest characters': a shared Brer Rabbit + Zeke Wolf universe.
I'm not the biggest fan of school settings in kids' stories (that's where kids spend all of their time alreadyyy), but there's a lot to be said for developing a consistent cast of characters as HDL's peers. Occasionally you'll get a character like Sonny Seagull, but him being a vagabond means his stories tend to go more toward urban exploration than the domestic comedy you see with the Duckies.
A similar universe was created in Italy around the same time, with Young Donnie Duck and his friends -- Millicent, Tom, Betty Lou and Louis. There's less diversity in design, with everyone being duckfowl, and the setting near Grandma Duck's farm is a little more village-like. There are other teachers, and even a new mayor character.
In this instance, I prefer the Duckies, but that's probably more out of familiarity with the Dutch school environment. You may think otherwise.
Hun is one of those one-pagers that's passed into the popular consciousness, one that only works in Dutch. Mr. Warbol gets annoyed with the kids' overuse of the word 'hun' ("them") where it should be 'zij' ("they"), something that's common in real life. He warns that the next person to say 'hun' has to treat the class for ice cream --- only for him to continue the history lesson about Attila the Hun... (Turns out the ice cream vendor also uses the incorrect form!)
Do you have any characters or universes that you'd like to bring up? Maybe they add something to the mythos, maybe they're a weird off-shoot from the 1960s, maybe it's a character associated with one particular artist. Please share!