So it's exactly three months since I made my last post and my mind has drifted back here due to thinking about Disney, due to playing Kingdom Hearts and seeing Toy Story 3. I was reminded I... still have no source for Audree. I hope I'm not being irritating, but leaving a project I was interested in 99% finished... sticks in my craw a bit. So, anyone have any ideas in the last few months? All I know about the story is it's apparently in English, judging from the text in the picture on the tree.
We have a bit more info than this. When was Gilles' tree made? the story must be older than that. I suspect the art is from Marco Rota, but that's only a guess. Also, the name "Audrée" with an accent would unlikely be used in a US print; instead we may guess this is a French reprint. The name "Duck" as a family name has been used mainly in Picsou Magazine, not earlier that the 1990s. I though this may be an "ancestor" family portrait that appears in one of Marco Rota's MacPaperin stories (some of the later ones he did for Egmont, not for Mondadori). But I could not find any match. After all this may not be a MacPaperin story, but a regular duck story by Marco Rota.
We have a bit more info than this. When was Gilles' tree made? the story must be older than that. I suspect the art is from Marco Rota, but that's only a guess. Also, the name "Audrée" with an accent would unlikely be used in a US print; instead we may guess this is a French reprint. The name "Duck" as a family name has been used mainly in Picsou Magazine, not earlier that the 1990s. I though this may be an "ancestor" family portrait that appears in one of Marco Rota's MacPaperin stories (some of the later ones he did for Egmont, not for Mondadori). But I could not find any match. After all this may not be a MacPaperin story, but a regular duck story by Marco Rota.
The word "Aunt," in English, is shown in the picture, though.
Wondering if I should close the book on the Audree search for now. The person I contacted at Inducks says even nobody there knows who she is. Probably she's just one of the infinity bazillion relatives in background photos, just one who happens to have a name, meaning we could be searching literally thousands of stories trying to find her. The only other option I see apart from just getting lucky is prodding Gilles himself; does anyone here actually know him?
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Aug 1, 2019 11:31:19 GMT
Okay, another one: "Thimothy Gearloose", depicted as Gyro's g-g-…—granfather:
He looks more than a bit like the "Leonardo Pitagorico" who appears as Gyro's great-great-grandfather in the Marco Gervasio version of the Gearloose Family Tree. Could be coincidence, or maybe not.
I can confirm that it’s a story drawn by Tony Strobl , based by the art style. I’m an expert on Strobl art and have read a lot of stories by him. It could by a Western story, or a S coded one , not yet published in the US.