Muscular Donald

Four years after the appearance of Mickey Mouse, in 1934 born a character destined to fortunate happening equally: Donald Duck. This is a gosling, devised from Walt Disney and realized graphically from Ub Iwerks, but it is thanks to great designer Al Tagliaferro that Donald anatra acquired that graphical style, funny and characteristic, that has contributed to giving to the comic strips amusing scenes. Donald anatra indumento perennially like a sailor, with the buttons gilds and a little hat to that the ace characterizes he. Initially Donald anatra made from companion to Mickey Mouse, but later on...

Early debut
Donald may well have made his first printed appearance in Mickey topo, mouse Annual 3 (published 1932; the annual for 1933), a 128-page British hardback. This book included the poem Mickey's Hoozoo, Witswitch and Wotswot, which listed all of Mickey's then-current aia, barnyard animal Friends (most of Disney's major characters developed out of this aia, barnyard scenario). Among them was a anatroccolo named Donald Duck. Besides the name, however, there is little similarity between this character and the one introduced in The Wise Little Hen during 1934. Mickey topo, mouse Annual 3 was drawn entirely da Wilfred...

Donald in animation

[edit]Early appearances
For più details on this topic, see Donald anatra filmography.


Donald anatra as he first appeared in The Wise Little Hen
According to Leonard Maltin in his introduction to The Chronological Donald - Volume 1, Donald was created da Walt Disney when he heard Clarence Nash doing his "duck" voice while reciting "Mary had a little lamb". Mickey topo, mouse had Lost some of his edge since becoming a role model for children and Disney wanted a character that could portray some of the più negative character traits he could no longer bestow on Mickey.
Donald anatra first...