High-heeled shoes for female ducks like Daisy and Magica

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

Here's some information literally taken from Thomas Andrae article 
"The Animation Years," published in the Carl Barks Library (07B-424).

Can someone tell me the origin of the quote that has been taken 
from "The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck" (page 174)? What 
is the date? Is it taken from a letter or from an interview, etc.?

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The bevy of girl ducks Barks drew for the mirage sequence in "Lost 
Prospectors" anticpates his work on Daisy.

Always concerned with physical and mechanical accuracy, the artist had 
trouble conceiving how the standard duck foot could be squeezed into 
a lady's high-heeled shoe. "Lord, they're terrible things!" he laughs. 
"To make a slipper for Daisy or Magica de Spell, knowing that they 
have those flat feet to start out with, I had to throw away the idea 
of the flat duck feet and just draw a slender duck leg coming down 
into a woman's shoe and never consider what the feet would look like 
all rolled up" (quoted in The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck, 
Scottsdale, AZ and West Plains, MO, Another Rainbow Publishing, Inc., 
1981, page 174). 

Another time, the Duck Man added, "They would have to look like 
rolled-up newspapers!" (interview by Bruce Hamilton, January 8 1983).

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"Lost Prospectors" (March 1938) is an unproduced Disney cartoon, 
with Donald Duck and Gus Goose.

--- Daniël