DCML Digest Issue 13

Don Rosa donrosa at iglou.com
Sun Jun 13 13:21:05 CEST 2004


I'm a bit perplexed by this idea that credits are not given in Disney comics
because the editors want to help the kiddies maintain the charming idea that
Donald Duck is a living being. Let's ignore the fact that, even if Donald
*was* a living & breathing creature, the child can still plainly see that
these are *drawings* of Donald Duck, not films or photographs. But let's
ignore that...
The main point is that only a very tiny toddler would have this sort of
notion that the fantastic beings and events on the comic pages are real...
this kiddy would certainly be only 2 to 4 years old, too young to read,
years away from learning. The comics are being read to him/her by mommy and
daddy.
So... how could the toddler read the credits?
What child of even the earliest reading age (7? 8?) thinks Donald Duck and
Mickey Mouse are actual living creatures?
And... why are the full credits placed on every *other* children's book ever
published, even books about Santa and the Easter Bunny, for every single
reader, child or adult, to see?




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