Herbert

[Per Starb{ck]

Hello quiet ones!

Some time ago Rich talked about making and collecting short profiles
on the Disney characters, like biographical data, and who made stories
with them, etc.  When I read the latest version of his DISNEY Toon
Character List I could only think of one recurring character that
wasn't there, so I tried to write a little entry for him.

* Herbert

Herbert is a friend of Huey, Dewey and Louie.  He is an
anthropomorphized pig who wears trousers and a sweater with stripes.
His mother (also a pig of course) was seen briefly in WDC 43, and his
father trains substitutes for setting hens for a living (WDC 70).
Herbert isn't very bright --- when the nephews gave him a dime he
swallowed it, and an X ray of his stomach showed a marble, some
buttons, the dime, and "a very bad school report card" (WDC 50).  His
only lines in WDC 43 were "Hunk-uh!" and "Yea!"

He was invented by Carl Barks, who used him in the following stories:

WDC 43 "Three Dirty Little Ducks"
WDC 50 (The Five-Hundred Dollar Dime)
WDC 70 (Smugsnorkle Squattie) (Herbert is not seen, only mentioned.)

[There are more, aren't there?  What have I forgot?]

Only Barks used him back then, but I think some of the newer artists
who know their Barks have used Herbert once or twice.
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Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: starback at student.docs.uu.se
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