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Lost In The Andes!
"Lost in the Andes!" is a Donald Duck story written by Carl Barks and published in Dell Comics' ''Four Color Comics'' #223 in April 1949. Donald and his nephews go to South America to find the mythical chickens that lay square eggs (actually, they are cubic eggs). Plot The story features Donald and his three nephews as members of a museum-sponsored expedition searching for the source of a number of square "artifacts" held in the Duckburg museum, recently revealed to be square eggs when Donald drops one and it cracks open. There is a rising interest, both scientific and financial, to find the source of these eggs and the chicken that laid them. However, the only thing known about them is that they came from Peru and were found somewhere in the Andes. During their journey to South America, Donald's nephews use some of the old square eggs from the museum to make an omelette. This causes the members of the expedition to come down with food poisoning. By the time their boat reaches Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Duck
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. Donald is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit, sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is known for his Donald Duck talk, semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous, temperamental, and pompous personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald was included in ''TV Guide''s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002, and has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character. Donald Duck appeared in comedic roles in animated cartoons. Donald's first appearance was in ''The Wise Little Hen'' (1934), but it was his second appearance in ''Orphan's Benefit'' that same year that introduced him as a temperamental comic Foil (narrative), foil to Mickey Mouse. Throughout the next two decades, Donald appeared in over 150 theatrical fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nynorsk
Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Dano-Norwegian written standard known as Riksmål. The name Nynorsk was introduced in 1929. After a series of reforms, it is still the written standard closer to , whereas Bokmål is closer to Riksmål and Danish. Between 10 and 15 percent of Norwegians (primarily in the west around the city of Bergen) have Nynorsk as their official language form, estimated by the number of students attending secondary schools. Nynorsk is also taught as a mandatory subject in both high school and middle school for all Norwegians who do not have it as their own language form. History Norway had its own written and oral language—Old Norse, Norwegian. After the Kalmar Union, Norway became a Denmark–Norway, less important part of Denmark. At that time, Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Comics Stories
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film ''Steamboat Willie.'' The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon. After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation sector, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Duck In Comics
Donald Duck, a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company, is today the star of dozens of comic-book and comic-strip stories published each month around the world. In many European countries, Donald is considered the lead character in Disney comics, more important and beloved than Mickey Mouse. In America, the ''Donald Duck'' comic strip debuted on February 7, 1938, following a 1936-1937 trial run in the ''Silly Symphony'' Sunday page. The strip ran for more than 50 years, ending in 1995. The ''Donald Duck'' comic book first appeared as part of Dell Comics' ''Four Color Comics'' one-shot series, beginning in 1942 (published as ''Four Color'' #9). It became an independent comic book with issue #26 in November 1952. Donald Duck also has a prominent role in ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'', the American flagship anthology comic first published in 1940. The most popular issues featured the Donald Duck 10-pagers written and drawn by Carl Barks, who began the run with iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Disney Comics By Carl Barks ...
Carl Barks (1901–2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and Disney comic book creator. List of comic book stories Source: Comic strips See also * List of non-Disney comics by Carl Barks / Carl Barks * List of Disney comics by Don Rosa / Don Rosa * Donald Duck in comics / Donald Duck universe * Disney comics / Inducks (Disney comics database) References {{Carl Barks Disney comics stories Comics by Carl Barks Barks, Carl Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and (formerly) the Erotic comics, erotic Eros Comix imprint. They have managed several awards for achievement in comic books. History Founding Fantagraphics was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Michael Catron in College Park, Maryland. The company took over an zine, adzine named ''The Nostalgia Journal'', which it renamed ''The Comics Journal''. As comics journalist (and former Fantagraphics employee) Michael Dean writes, "the publisher has alternated between flourishing and nearly perishing over the years." Kim Thompson joined the company in 1977, using his inheritance to keep the company afloat. (He soon became a co-owner.) The company moved from Washington, D.C., to Stamford, Connecticut, to Los Angeles over its early years, before settling in Seattle in 1989. Beginning in 1981 Fantagraphics (under its Redbea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library
''The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library'' is a series of books collecting all of the comic book Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories written and drawn by Carl Barks, originally published between 1942 and Barks' retirement in June 1966. The series was launched in late 2011, and will comprise 6,000 plus pages over roughly 30 200- to 240-page volumes when it is finished. ''The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library'' has been translated and published in Italy, Brazil, Russia, and Germany. From March 2024, Disney restricted access to the Kindle editions outside of North America, making the entire digital collection unavailable to purchase officially outside of North America. Background The rights to Barks' works were licensed from Disney by Gemstone Publishing from 2003 until the end of 2008, when they ceased publishing Disney titles. When Fantagraphics Books publisher Gary Groth heard this, he contacted Disney and secured the publishing rights to Floyd Gottfredson's work on the ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck
''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck'' (''Lo'') 12-part comic book storyline written and drawn by Don Rosa, lettered by Todd Klein (American editions), first published by the Danish publisher Egmont in the magazine '' Anders And & Co.'' from 1992–94 and later in English in ''Uncle Scrooge'' #285 through #296 (1994–96). It follows the life of Scrooge McDuck from 1877 to 1947, the year of his real-life debut, working in almost every event about his past referenced in stories by Carl Barks. Rosa earned the Will Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1995 for this story. The trade paperback collection was also a top vote-getter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Novel/Album for 1997. After being out of print for several years with high demand, the book was reprinted under the BOOM! Studios label in two deluxe hardcover volumes, and again under Fantagraphics Books. The Finnish composer Tuomas Holopainen released a concept album based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Buckaroo Of The Badlands
"The Buckaroo of the Badlands" is a 1992 Scrooge McDuck comic by Don Rosa. It's the third of the original 12 chapters in the series ''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck''. The story takes place in 1882. The story was first published in the Danish '' Anders And & Co.'' #1992-45; the first American publication was in ''Uncle Scrooge'' #287, in August 1994. Plot Fifteen-year-old Teenager Scrooge is traveling to the American West by train. During a conversation with a man who owns some square eggs, the train is robbed by Jesse James and his gang. Scrooge fights them, but falls off the train himself. He comes across some cowboys led by Murdo MacKenzie, transporting cattle and joins them, receiving his own horse, which he names after his sister Hortense, since they have the same bad temper. He is placed in charge of security of a prize-winning bull, which is then stolen by the McViper brothers. Scrooge follows them to the badlands, where he meets Theodore Roosevelt Theodore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck (occasionally stylized as $crooge McDuck) is a cartoon character created in 1947 for The Walt Disney Company by Carl Barks. Appearing in Disney comics, Scrooge is a Scottish-born American anthropomorphic duck. Like his nephew, Donald Duck, he has a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and spats varying in color. He is portrayed in animation as speaking with a Scottish English, Scottish accent. Originally intended to be used only once, Scrooge became one of the most popular characters in the Disney comics world, as well as Barks' signature work. Scrooge is an extremely rich duck who lives in the fictional city of Duckburg (which is also Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie's home city) in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota (a blend of California and Minnesota), whose claimed location is in real-world California, United States. Named after the character Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Plain Awful
"Return to Plain Awful" is a Donald Duck story that was originally printed during the Gladstone Publishing run of ''Donald Duck Adventures'', issue #12 in May 1989. It was written by Don Rosa as a sequel to "Lost in the Andes!" by Carl Barks, to commemorate that story's 40th anniversary. Plot Donald Duck and his nephews journey back to Plain Awful. This time, Scrooge McDuck goes with them. Scrooge plans to buy some square eggs from the natives, while Donald and the nephews plan to return the roosters they brought back from their first visit. Unfortunately, Flintheart Glomgold also wants the square eggs and again serves as Scrooge's unscrupulous rival. In Plain Awful, the ducks discover that, since their last visit, the highly imitative residents have sculpted their entire culture around the appearance and personality of Donald Duck (just as they had previously built their entire culture around the personality of their previous visitor). One aspect of Plain Awful's culture that has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Rosa
Keno Don Hugo Rosa (), known as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his comics about Scrooge McDuck and other Disney comics, Disney characters. Many of his stories are built on characters and locations created by Carl Barks. Rosa created about 90 stories between 1987 and 2006, and in 1995 his 12-chapter work ''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck'' won the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story. Early life Don Rosa was born Keno Don Hugo Rosa on June 29, 1951, in Louisville, Kentucky. Rosa's older sister was an avid collector of comics and exposed Don to comics as a storytelling medium at a very early age, teaching him to "read the pictures." Growing up his favorite comics were ''Uncle Scrooge'' and ''Little Lulu'', as well as his sister's collection of MAD magazines. He also had an affinity for Superman (Earth-One), Mort Weisinger's era of Superman comics, and he later began to collect ''Spirit (comics character), The Spi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
