Do you read Brazilian stories? What is your opinion?

[crazycatlord]

My impression is that Brazilian stories are more "comedy", while US and Italian stories are more "action/adventure".

About things like Mousetown and Duckburg being the same town, I don't notice the difference, because all (I only know of one exception) stories published in Portugal presents that this way. And, sincerely, I think makes more sense that way - Duckburg and Mousetown being different towns creates strong problems of continuity, not only with Brazilian stories but also with many US-made stories.

[The KKM]

Mar 4, 2018 4:19:14 GMT crazycatlord said:

My impression is that Brazilian stories are more "comedy", while US and Italian stories are more "action/adventure".

About things like Mousetown and Duckburg being the same town, I don't notice the difference, because all (I only know of one exception) stories published in Portugal presents that this way. And, sincerely, I think makes more sense that way - Duckburg and Mousetown being different towns creates strong problems of continuity, not only with Brazilian stories but also with many US-made stories.

Not under the current Goody heading, where the towns are distinct.

[Orora]

I have also noticed that many of the Brazilian comics I've liked to read were drawn by Euclides K. Miyaura and Robert O. Fukue, apart from the Rodrigues brothers (that I associate with Daisy stories).

Are there some Brazilian artists that stand out to you in Disney comics?

And very often, the French coloring used for the Brazilian comics was the best one of all the others! (if I compare with the other preview pictures of Inducks)

[Hyaroo]

Growing up in Scandinavia, I grew up "knowing" that Donald, Mickey and the rest all lived in Duckburg. It was just that Mickey and Goofy et al. lived in another part of the city and just didn't meet the Ducks very often... kind of like how I didn't meet up with my friends who lived on the opposite side of the city too often. I remember when I first got an American Mickey Mouse comic and read "Mouseton," I was just SO annoyed. "MOUSETON?! What a stupid name!"

Even now I still vastly prefer the idea of Mickey and co living in Duckburg. Call it nostalgia... or maybe just blame that "Duckburg" is a much cooler name than "Mouseton."

[mcquack]

Jul 19, 2018 17:44:43 GMT Hyaroo said:

Growing up in Scandinavia, I grew up "knowing" that Donald, Mickey and the rest all lived in Duckburg. It was just that Mickey and Goofy et al. lived in another part of the city and just didn't meet the Ducks very often... kind of like how I didn't meet up with my friends who lived on the opposite side of the city too often. I remember when I first got an American Mickey Mouse comic and read "Mouseton," I was just SO annoyed. "MOUSETON?! What a stupid name!"

Even now I still vastly prefer the idea of Mickey and co living in Duckburg. Call it nostalgia... or maybe just blame that "Duckburg" is a much cooler name than "Mouseton."

Could've been worse.  It could've been Mouseville, which was taken by Mighty Mouse and IMO is super generic and bland.

[Hyaroo]

Somehow "Mouseville" sounds better than "Mouseton." However, none of them can hold a candle to "Duckburg." ^_^

[RobbK1]

Jul 19, 2018 17:44:43 GMT Hyaroo said:

Growing up in Scandinavia, I grew up "knowing" that Donald, Mickey and the rest all lived in Duckburg. It was just that Mickey and Goofy et al. lived in another part of the city and just didn't meet the Ducks very often... kind of like how I didn't meet up with my friends who lived on the opposite side of the city too often. I remember when I first got an American Mickey Mouse comic and read "Mouseton," I was just SO annoyed. "MOUSETON?! What a stupid name!"

Even now I still vastly prefer the idea of Mickey and co living in Duckburg. Call it nostalgia... or maybe just blame that "Duckburg" is a much cooler name than "Mouseton."

What city in Scandinavia is so big that you couldn't hop onto a bus, or even ride a bicycle, and visit any part of it on any day? 

Kopenhagen, and Stockholm are small enough, and Oslo is much smaller.  Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense, Trondheim, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Kragerø, Malmö, Göteborg, Lund, Halsinborg are all too small.  So are Rekjavik and Keflavik, and Helsinki, Turku, Vaasa, and any other Finnish city, if you widen Scandinavia to include Iceland and Finland.

Even in Los Angeles, a Metropolitan area whose extremities are as far apart as any in the whole country of The Netherlands, anyone can see someone else from its other end on any day he or she wishes.

Nevertheless, it makes a lot more sense to me that Mouseville (Gottfredson's name for Mickey's town), is not very far from Duckburg (maybe 3 hours by car, 2 and a half by fast train, and 50 minutes by airplane). That would make it a few hundred kilometers away.  Not a place you would find The Mice and Ducks together every day, but a place where any one of the character COULD show up on any given day.

[Hyaroo]

Oh, you can do it, certainly. It's just that most of the time you just don't.  I could see my friends at the opposite side of the city at any given day, but usually only if we'd planned a get-together or decided to meet downtown or something. But I don't bump into them at the store, or while out walking, or anything like that. If I see them, more often than not it's because I was planning to see them. It's very possible to live in the same city, or the same town, and still only occasionally see each other. ^_^

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Jul 21, 2018 8:50:53 GMT Hyaroo said:

  It's very possible to live in the same city, or the same town, and still only occasionally see each other. ^_^

It remains the problem that the peculiar architectonical elements of Duckburg, most notably the money bin, are invisible in mouse stories. Doesn't that conflict with your suspension of disbelieve?


For me, grown up in Italy, there is no other view possible. Topolinia (the Italian name of Mouseton) has been named every week in almost every Mickey &/or Goofy story for sixty-five years now! Italian authors used the name explicitly since the middle of the fifties, maybe even before: basically at the same time Barks was establishing Duckburg as a non-generic city.
The distinction between the two cities, Paperopoli e Topolinia, is part of the popular culture in Italy.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 21, 2018 9:29:00 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Jul 21, 2018 8:50:53 GMT Hyaroo said:

  It's very possible to live in the same city, or the same town, and still only occasionally see each other. ^_^

It remains the problem that the peculiar architectonical elements of Duckburg, most notably the money bin, are invisible in mouse stories. Doesn't that conflict with your suspension of disbelieve?

To play devil's advocate, it could be that Duckburg-Mouseton is simply large enough that Mickey, living in a different neighborhood, is too far away to see the Cornelius Coot statue or the Money Bin unless he wanders very far away from home. You can't see the Statute of Liberty from just about anywhere in New-York City, for instance.

[Hyaroo]

Jul 21, 2018 14:19:19 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 21, 2018 9:29:00 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

It remains the problem that the peculiar architectonical elements of Duckburg, most notably the money bin, are invisible in mouse stories. Doesn't that conflict with your suspension of disbelieve?

To play devil's advocate, it could be that Duckburg-Mouseton is simply large enough that Mickey, living in a different neighborhood, is too far away to see the Cornelius Coot statue or the Money Bin unless he wanders very far away from home. You can't see the Statute of Liberty from just about anywhere in New-York City, for instance.

That was my take on it, yes. There are plenty of places in Duckburg where the money bin isn't in immediate sight, as evidenced by the fact that you don't see the money bin in every Duck story either -- usually not unless Scrooge is also in the story. 

I live in Oslo, and I don't see the Royal Palace or Oslo Plaza or the Opera House or Oslo Cathedral from anywhere near my house or my neighbourhood. In fact, weeks may pass by without me being anywhere near either of those buildings. The money bin is huge, yes, and can be seen from quite a distance, but the fact that you don't see it in the Mickey stories in no way conflicts with my suspension of disbelief.