The full strip is available on INDUCKS, and you should be able to read it if you zoom in (the quality is not the best, but it works!) Aunt Sarah's message reads "Sending you something you had as a boy. We're tired paying storage charges on it! Happy birthday! Sentimentally, aunt Sarah". I'd argue Sarah could still be the McDuck-hating O'Drake sister. The reason she sends the piggy bank to Scrooge is because she doesn't want to pay for the thing anymore.
I agree that there shouldn't be too many people around that are older than Scrooge. I guess you could have characters in their 90s, but not too many. (I very much dislike that Blackheart Beagle has to be around 110 to be alive in "the present" for example.) But there was a theory about Rumpus' mother being much younger than Fergus, so I guess that makes sense. I also agree about Grandma.
I am not aware of any non-McDuck cousins of Scrooge. There aren't any on the Gilles Maurice tree either (except for Rumpus of course).
The full strip is available on INDUCKS, and you should be able to read it if you zoom in (the quality is not the best, but it works!) Aunt Sarah's message reads "Sending you something you had as a boy. We're tired paying storage charges on it! Happy birthday! Sentimentally, aunt Sarah". I'd argue Sarah could still be the McDuck-hating O'Drake sister. The reason she sends the piggy bank to Scrooge is because she doesn't want to pay for the thing anymore.
I agree that there shouldn't be too many people around that are older than Scrooge. I guess you could have characters in their 90s, but not too many. (I very much dislike that Blackheart Beagle has to be around 110 to be alive in "the present" for example.) But there was a theory about Rumpus' mother being much younger than Fergus, so I guess that makes sense. I also agree about Grandma.
I am not aware of any non-McDuck cousins of Scrooge. There aren't any on the Gilles Maurice tree either (except for Rumpus of course).
In Zio Paperone e l'ottuagenaria a pedale (I TL 442-A) it's cited cousin Zenone Anatrone that appear in I CWD 34-A, Anatrone is the italian translation of drake so we can assume that his name can be translated as Zeno O'Drake.
I'd argue Sarah could still be the McDuck-hating O'Drake sister. The reason she sends the piggy bank to Scrooge is because she doesn't want to pay for the thing anymore.
That could work, I suppose, but the impression I get from "Travails" is that Rumpus' mother is no longer alive. The family secrets revealed in that story come from a letter she wrote in the distant past; had she still been alive, you'd expect Rumpus to say something to the effect that he had asked her to confirm the veracity of its contents, and she told him it was all indeed true, or some such. Still, I guess "Travails" could have chronologically taken place much after the Aunt Sarah gag, and she could have passed away in between.
His original name was MacPaperson, as stated on his wiki page. I thought I had read somewhere that the image on the wiki is just fan art, but I can't find anything to support that now, leading me to believe my mind may have just made that up.
You didn't. The art was created on the old Disney Comics Forum in a thread where the artist created professional-looking image of various offscreen characters, and MacPaperson was one of them. The original art was in black and white — I colored it myself.
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Feb 7, 2019 13:40:38 GMT
Oh, also, re: Aunt Sarah; I suppose one could also cite the fact that part of the joke seems to be that she's stingy (not wanting to pay to store one of Scrooge's cherished childhood possessions) as evidence that she's a McDuck rather than an O'Drake, and therefore more likely to be a sister to Fergus/Pothole/Jake than to Vera/Downy (although is that really stinginess or is it reasonable frugality? After all, Scrooge is easily able to pay to store his own stuff. Also maybe cheapness runs in the O'Drake blood as well; perhaps that's what attracted Downy and her sister to Fergus in the first place).
Quick question re: Scrooge's maternal grandfather. The name "Duckson O'Drake", as used on the Scrooge McDuck Wiki, is referred to as an unofficial approximation of his Italian name. What is the original Italian name? And where is the image of the character on the Scrooge McDuck Wiki from? Does the original version clearly identify the character as Scrooge's maternal grandfather (the English version, the only one I have read, gives his role to Fergus McDuck)? The art in the English version of the story seems very obviously heavily edited; what other changes were made and, if anyone knows, why?
His original name was MacPaperson, as stated on his wiki page. I thought I had read somewhere that the image on the wiki is just fan art, but I can't find anything to support that now, leading me to believe my mind may have just made that up.
I think it is a common mistake to read it MacPaperson but in reality in Italian history it is written as Mac Paperson and is only signed as Mac, so Mac is the name and Paperson is the surname.
His original name was MacPaperson, as stated on his wiki page. I thought I had read somewhere that the image on the wiki is just fan art, but I can't find anything to support that now, leading me to believe my mind may have just made that up.
I think it is a common mistake to read it MacPaperson but in reality in Italian history it is written as Mac Paperson and is only signed as Mac, so Mac is the name and Paperson is the surname.
Huh. I'll correct the page. The result is the same, though — the character's surname is different from Scrooge's, so he must be his maternal grandfather. Which translates as his being an O'Drake if we put that in Don Rosa terms.
I think it is a common mistake to read it MacPaperson but in reality in Italian history it is written as Mac Paperson and is only signed as Mac, so Mac is the name and Paperson is the surname.
Huh. I'll correct the page. The result is the same, though — the character's surname is different from Scrooge's, so he must be his maternal grandfather. Which translates as his being an O'Drake if we put that in Don Rosa terms.
Yes is always the maternal grandfather not having the surname the Scrooge.
His original name was MacPaperson, as stated on his wiki page. I thought I had read somewhere that the image on the wiki is just fan art, but I can't find anything to support that now, leading me to believe my mind may have just made that up.
You didn't. The art was created on the old Disney Comics Forum in a thread where the artist created professional-looking image of various offscreen characters, and MacPaperson was one of them. The original art was in black and white — I colored it myself.
Good to know I'm not losing my mind. The art is nice, though, in my opinion, it looks a little bit too much like the McDuck side of the family. It looks very good, it's just not as Downy-esque as I was expecting. I would have preferred small eyes and maybe more hair, personally.
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You didn't. The art was created on the old Disney Comics Forum in a thread where the artist created professional-looking image of various offscreen characters, and MacPaperson was one of them. The original art was in black and white — I colored it myself.
Good to know I'm not losing my mind. The art is nice, though, in my opinion, it looks a little bit too much like the McDuck side of the family. It looks very good, it's just not as Downy-esque as I was expecting. I would have preferred small eyes and maybe more hair, personally.
It's more a matter of taste, because a child can look a little like a parent because it's taken more by his grandparents. For example, Jenny does not look like Downy so many that I know prefer her the legend of Linda Mac Quack's or the grandma seen only in cameo in "Zio Paperone e il rosolio della nonna" (I TL 786-B), but Jenny is the only granma of Scrooge developed.
Good to know I'm not losing my mind. The art is nice, though, in my opinion, it looks a little bit too much like the McDuck side of the family. It looks very good, it's just not as Downy-esque as I was expecting. I would have preferred small eyes and maybe more hair, personally.
It's more a matter of taste, because a child can look a little like a parent because it's taken more by his grandparents. For example, Jenny does not look like Downy so many that I know prefer her the legend of Linda Mac Quack's or the grandma seen only in cameo in "Zio Paperone e il rosolio della nonna" (I TL 786-B), but Jenny is the only granma of Scrooge developed.
Yes, you're right that a child that doesn't have to look just like their parents, but I would just personally prefer for Downy's father to look more like her. I'm very unfamiliar with Jenny, though I have seen a picture of her. If, however, Jenny does look dissimilar to Downy, than that would strengthen the need for her father to look more like her. Sure, she could have inherited all the recessive traits from her grandparents, but do we know for sure that duck traits such as whether or not the eyes are seemingly conjoined to the beak are recessive or dominant? If the latter, then one of her parents must have unconjoined eyes, since Downy does.
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It's more a matter of taste, because a child can look a little like a parent because it's taken more by his grandparents. For example, Jenny does not look like Downy so many that I know prefer her the legend of Linda Mac Quack's or the grandma seen only in cameo in "Zio Paperone e il rosolio della nonna" (I TL 786-B), but Jenny is the only granma of Scrooge developed.
Yes, you're right that a child that doesn't have to look just like their parents, but I would just personally prefer for Downy's father to look more like her. I'm very unfamiliar with Jenny, though I have seen a picture of her. If, however, Jenny does look dissimilar to Downy, than that would strengthen the need for her father to look more like her. Sure, she could have inherited all the recessive traits from her grandparents, but do we know for sure that duck traits such as whether or not the eyes are seemingly conjoined to the beak are recessive or dominant? If the latter, then one of her parents must have unconjoined eyes, since Downy does.
If we talk about resemblance I think this portrait (which was in the Scrooge's money bin) goes a bit better, comes from the story "The Mysterious Garden" (D 4616)
I was going to post another portrait and suggest it as another possible candidate for Downy O'Drake's father, but for some reason I can't post any images anymore... how odd... It says "Error: This forum has exceeded its attachment space limit. Your file cannot be uploaded." Is that just my computer being weird, or is there something else wrong here?
Anyways, the one I was going to suggest as Downy's father is from Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck 1. In one panel, there's a picture hanging on the wall at the McDuck residence, depicting a duck with John D. Rockerduck-sideburns and detached eyes.
It says "Error: This forum has exceeded its attachment space limit. Your file cannot be uploaded." Is that just my computer being weird, or is there something else wrong here?
The problem has been going on for a few days. You'd be best off posting it on an external image-hosting service and posting a link here.