Disney publishes duck family tree in USA, acknowledges the DCML

DGE@ECN.egmont.com DGE at ECN.egmont.com
Sat Oct 20 18:05:39 CEST 2001


	Hey, everyone...

	_The Little Big Book Of Disney_, an 8-by-8, 356-page English
language Disney trivia/casual reference book, is apparently available
worldwide now. I hadn't heard of the book, published by Disney Press- one of
Disney's own USA imprints- before seeing it in the shops today.
	There's a fair amount of Duck comics-related information in the
book, suggesting that the authors did some research. A page with basic
information about Pegleg Pete refers also to such comics villains as
Sylvester Shyster and Emil Eagle as being his cohorts. A two-page feature on
Carl Barks is here, written with great respect, and reprinting 3/4 of a page
from "Land Beneath The Ground".
	A two-page, non-illustrated version of the Duck Family Tree is here.
It is largely based on Barks and Rosa sources, but makes a few interesting
decisions of its own. Donald's sister is called Dumbella. Matilda McDuck is
married to Ludwig Von Drake (there's a ? above the union, but it's
interesting that an "official" Disney source goes even this far). Andold
Wild Duck is listed as a medieval ancestor of Cornelius Coot (!). Daisy is
linked to the others as a great grand-niece of Grandma Duck- and she's given
a brother in Donald's Cousin Fred (from H 85125).
	Gus Goose and Rumpus McFowl are on the tree, but there are no lines
to connect them to anyone else. I don't know why.
	A page on the Number One Dime tries to mix several mythologies. It
uses Don Rosa's version of the events in which Scrooge's father originally
got the dime from Howard Rockerduck (D 91249), but doesn't mention the point
of it all: the ditchdigger, or the cleaning of his boots. It also takes the
DuckTales route of referring to the dime as a lucky charm.

	There is no mention of Don Rosa, William Van Horn or Marco Rota in
this book, despite the attempt to incorporate their creations. Floyd
Gottfredson is (sniff!) not mentioned either.

	At the end of the book, the bibliography mentions several websites
among its sources that might be well-known to us:
	* The DCML
	* Rich's HooZoo (at a web address that no longer functions)
	* Sigvald Grøsfjeld's Who's Who In Duckburg 
Is this the first reference to our sites in an authorized Disney
publication?

	David Gerstein
	<dge at ecn.egmont.com>



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