This book examines the scope and nature of Donald Duck and his family's popularity in Germany, in contrast to the diminished role they play in America. This is achieved through examination of the respective fan communities, business practices, and universality of the characters. This work locates and understands the aspects of translation and adaptation that inform the spread of culture that have as yet been underexplored in the context of comic books. It represents a large-scale attempt to incorporate adaptation and translation studies into comics studies, through a lens of fan studies (used to examine both the American and German fan communities, as well as the work of Don Rosa). This work builds on the efforts of other scholars, including Janet Wasko and Illaria Meloni, while expanding the historical understanding of what might be the world’s best-selling comics.
Author(s): Peter Cullen Bryan
Series: Palgrave Fan Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 229
City: Cham
Tags: comics translation, comics adaptation
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Tables
Chapter 1: “A Duck’s Eye View of Europe”: How to Read Donald Duck
References
Chapter 2: “The Empire-Builder from Calisota”: Donald Duck and the Rise of Disney
McCay, Bray, and Early Animated Propaganda
Building The House of Mouse
The Duck Appears
References
Chapter 3: “Donald Gets Drafted”: Donald Duck at War and as Propaganda
Animation as Propaganda
Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros
The Darker Side of Propaganda
Merchandising, Merchandising
References
Chapter 4: “The Buckaroo of the Badlands”: Carl Barks Remembering the Frontier
Carl Barks as a Creator
The Philosophy of Carl Barks
Carl Barks and Frontier Theory
Carl Barks and the Sheriff of Bullet Valley
Scrooge McDuck as the Frontiersman
Carl Barks Goes Back North to the Frontier
Carl Barks at the End of an Era
Finding Carl Barks
References
Chapter 5: “The Good Duck Translator”: Erika Fuchs and the Exporting of Donald Duck
Cultural Exchange and the Occupation of Germany
Konrad Adenauer Joins the West
Cultural Diplomacy and the Duck
Saludos Amigos and Three Caballeros Revisited
Disney Comics and the Power of Donald Duck
The Good Duck Translator
Erika Fuchs and Translation Studies
The Fuchs Effect Illustrated
References
Chapter 6: “Guardians of the Lost Library”: Developments of the Duck Fan Communities
Comics Collecting Communities
Pre-Digital Fan Communications
Gladstone Comics Arrives on the Scene
Gladstone Grows a New Fan Community
DuckTales (Woo-ooo!)
The Eisner Era
The End of Gladstone and the Rise (and Fall) of Disney Comics
References
Chapter 7: “The King of the Klondike”: Don Rosa and (Re)envisioning the Frontier
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as Fan Fiction
Don Rosa and “The King of the Klondike”
Don Rosa and “The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff”
References
Chapter 8: “The Dream of Three Lifetimes”: Barks, Fuchs, Rosa, and Artistic Hybridity in Donald Duck Comics
Reference
Index
