Duckburg/Mouseton shown on maps

[rasterax]

I'm currently researching stories/panels where Duckburg or Mouseton are shown on maps.

There's Rosa's placement of Calisota and Duckburg in Lo$ chapter 10, of course. Calisota is Northern California and Duckburg in place of real-life city Eureka.



Barks was never that specific (he said he imagined Duckburg to be near Bubank, but wanted it to be able to have anything he needed for a story and not have it tied down to a specific location), but when maps were shown in his stories it was shown to be near a western coast.



From "Zio Paperone in vacanza con 80 dollari" (I TL 1600-A). Duckburg is further down the south, apparently between L.A. and San Diego:



What about Mouseton? Here's an interesting panel from "the Search for the Zodiac Stone", which places it at the other end of the US. (This is from the German translation. Since Germany only has one "Entenhausen", the difference between geographic locations was simply ignored - but you can still see the poorly retouched names "Paperopoli" and "Topolinia"!)



In Scarpa's "Imperatore della Calidornia", however, Topolinia is placed on the west coast.


Do you know any other stories where Mouseton's location is shown? Or any stories that actually show Duckburg elsewhere on a map?

[whatevs]

In the DuckTales episode "Double-O-Duck", Duckburg is located SW of Washington and New York City.

I have a vague recollection that the 2010+ Darkwing Duck comics once depicted St. Canard nearby two other big cities, which for one reason or another (I know it wasn't in the panel) I remember as Duckburg and Mouseton. Might be that the comic hinted/stated the three to be located near each other.

[drakeborough]

I made a file in my pc with an archive of maps appearing in various comics, and even planned of opening such a thread, however I can't access it now nor can I corrently upload any image. Which means for now I'll just link this page with a few maps, while I will provide more examples in the future.

Plus, DuckTales contradicted itself here by apparently showing Duckburg on the West Coast.

 

[iggy]

I read this story today and here mouseton/topolinia is set in calisota, shown on a map
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2879-1

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 28, 2017 18:22:17 GMT drakeborough said:

I made a file in my pc with an archive of maps appearing in various comics, and even planned of opening such a thread, however I can't access it now nor can I corrently upload any image. Which means for now I'll just link this page with a few maps, while I will provide more examples in the future.

Plus, DuckTales contradicted itself here by apparently showing Duckburg on the West Coast.

 

You can take it that way, sure, but to me, it looks as though this map could easily be read as showing a river (possibly River Tulebug?). Notice those landmasses to the left? (Also, I dare anyone to look at Magica's expression in that screenshot without at the very least chuckling.)

It's odd that I have to link him again after only a few hours with the Cars thread, but Gilles Maurice has the topic covered again.

[Matilda]

In Jürgen Wollina's Reiseführer Entenhausen (Egmont/Ehapa 2010), the map shows Duckburg to be on a west coast. I don't believe the travel guide ever specifies in what country/state Duckburg lies, so no placement with reference to real-world locales, other than an unidentified ocean.

I suppose someone on some Disney comics forum/blog has at some point discussed the anomaly that in the Cape Quack story Duckburg actually can't be sited on the West Coast, since the storm is a "northeaster"--it would have to be on the East Coast, probably in New England or in the Mid-Atlantic states. Another example of Barks placing Duckburg wherever he needed to to make the story work.

By the way, my internet security system blocks access to the Gilles Maurice pages.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 29, 2017 1:01:03 GMT Matilda said:

By the way, my internet security system blocks access to the Gilles Maurice pages.

Puzzling. Did you try going there through the Internet Archive, maybe? Like so? 

[RobbK1]

Jul 28, 2017 20:52:51 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Jul 28, 2017 18:22:17 GMT drakeborough said:

I made a file in my pc with an archive of maps appearing in various comics, and even planned of opening such a thread, however I can't access it now nor can I corrently upload any image. Which means for now I'll just link this page with a few maps, while I will provide more examples in the future.

Plus, DuckTales contradicted itself here by apparently showing Duckburg on the West Coast.

 

You can take it that way, sure, but to me, it looks as though this map could easily be read as showing a river (possibly River Tulebug?). Notice those landmasses to the left? (Also, I dare anyone to look at Magica's expression in that screenshot without at the very least chuckling.)

It's odd that I have to link him again after only a few hours with the Cars thread, but Gilles Maurice has the topic covered again.

Those "land masses" to the left (west) could possibly be the Islands in Duckburg Bay.  Barks showed a few there, off Calisota's coast, and also inside Duckburg Bay.  In addition, that water area could possibly be The Duckburg (or Tulebug) River.  However, to me, Duckburg IS on North America's (yes, even USA's) West Coast.  And, I place Calisota north of California (or is it Califlauernia?), and south of Oregon.  Barks placed Mudhen Island in the ocean, near Duckburg's harbour, when Donald piloted the ferry there (despite also having called one of the 2 islands inside Mudhen Lake that same name).  He also showed an island inside Duckburg Bay in the 1948 story in which Huey' Dewey and Louie met an old sailor who found a treasure near there.  Barks also stated that Catalina Island was out in the ocean across a channel, which Donald tried to swim in WDC & S # 152.  WDC & S 155 also shows an old Spanish map of a bay near Duckburg, which had an island in its middle in the old days (probably 1700s), but which has since been covered with seawater.  But it shows 2 other small islands just outside the bay.

I have made professional-style maps of Duckburg, Duck County and Calisota, with the goal to make them as Barksian as possible, and try to reduce any incongruities and contradictions to as little as possible.  I also used information produced by other authors and artists, when they didn't conflict with Barks' work.  I incorporated ALL maps that Barks depicted in his stories.