The first issue of the Donald Duck comic magazine was published in 1948 in Norway and Sweden. Denmark followed in 1949.
The animation star Donald Duck was transferred to a comic strip star by an artist named Al Taliaferro in the 1930s. Initially the stories were about the hot-tempered and ever-unlucky Donald, but Taliaferro soon introduced his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie.
However, it is the legendary Disney artist Carl Barks who is considered the father of the Duck universe by many Scandinavians, as his stories were the basis of every comic magazine in the first decades. During the years, Barks expanded the Duck universe with characters as Uncle Scrooge, Gladstone Gander, the Junior Woodchucks, The Beagle Boys, Magica de Spell and Gyro Gearloose.
In the beginning the magazines were based on American material, but since 1963 Egmont’s downtown Copenhagen headquarters have created and produced the stories. Today Egmont publishes Disney series in 25 countries, and with 8 million weekly readers, Egmont is the world’s largest comics producer.
As well as the weekly comic magazine, readers can meet Donald Duck and the other citizens of Duckburg in a wide spectrum of publications including pocketbooks, the Donald Duck annuals and the sublime Carl Barks Collection.
More Donald Duck:
www.serieforlaget.dk
www.egmont-karnan.se
www.serieforlaget.no
www.ehapa.de
www.egmont.co.uk
www.andeby.dk
www.andeby.se
www.disney.no
www.tegneseriemuseet.dk
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