I believe I said that she is a queen who shows courage and agency. If she were also tall and imposing, she could be seen as intimidating. My point was that her being cute, young-looking and smaller than Donald offsets her considerable power and makes her nonthreatening as a romantic partner.
there is no doubt Daisy is Worst Girl. Feminists should find her quite problematic TBH.
Fun fact: I remember a DCML quote in which Rosa said something like: I won't try making Daisy a more interesting and likable characters, because I have been exposed to decades of stories in which she is uninteresting and unlikable, so a Daisy who is more interesting and likable would seem out of character to me.
Barks expressed similar feelings. He wrote the first short with her, but all her subsequent animated appearances were written by others. He said: "I had nothing against Daisy appearing in Donald Duck cartoons. If business could be invented that would make her role funny and interesting, she was as welcome as sunshine. Seriously though, neither Daisy nor Minnie were basically funny. We wasted little time trying to include such females in the rough-and-tumble heroics of cartoon humor"
Furthermore, Barks even said "Rattlebrains like Daisy Duck are the curse of the earth", adding that he didn't use her much because he found her to be a "diluting influence".
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An accurate description! Though, at times, when Cavazzano was drawing Egmont violence scenes, he started to get alarmingly close to Bancells. And Bancells certainly gave his best for the Reginella story. But, eh, it wasn't quite enough to live up to Cavazzano's standard...
So merely a year after the story by Bruno Enna and Giada Perissinotto, another new Reginella story was released, written by... Vito Stabile! And according to our Topolino expert, it's far better than the previous one. inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3264-6
So merely a year after the story by Bruno Enna and Giada Perissinotto, another new Reginella story was released, written by... Vito Stabile! And according to our Topolino expert, it's far better than the previous one. inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3264-6
Ooh! Thanks for the update--I will have to keep an eye out for that one.
there is no doubt Daisy is Worst Girl. Feminists should find her quite problematic TBH.
Fun fact: I remember a DCML quote in which Rosa said something like: I won't try making Daisy a more interesting and likable characters, because I have been exposed to decades of stories in which she is uninteresting and unlikable, so a Daisy who is more interesting and likable would seem out of character to me.
Barks expressed similar feelings. He wrote the first short with her, but all her subsequent animated appearances were written by others. He said: "I had nothing against Daisy appearing in Donald Duck cartoons. If business could be invented that would make her role funny and interesting, she was as welcome as sunshine. Seriously though, neither Daisy nor Minnie were basically funny. We wasted little time trying to include such females in the rough-and-tumble heroics of cartoon humor"
Furthermore, Barks even said "Rattlebrains like Daisy Duck are the curse of the earth", adding that he didn't use her much because he found her to be a "diluting influence".
A sel fulfiling prophecy, then.
The problem with Rosa is that, for all his mastery at following and improving upon an established model he doesn't want or can't reinvent the wheel like most daring creators can while reinterpreting the artifacts.
Though, at times, when Cavazzano was drawing Egmont violence scenes, he started to get alarmingly close to Bancells. And Bancells certainly gave his best for the Reginella story. But, eh, it wasn't quite enough to live up to Cavazzano's standard...