I'm enjoying this Comic Sketchbook I got at Five Below:

Wrong Side of the Tracks

Here's an oldie but goodie:  What the heck are Morty and Ferdie doing in Duckburg?

Unified Duck Theory

Childhood

If I were Don Rosa, here’s how I’d tackle the Life and Times of Donald Duck:


Donald Duck, orphaned at an early age, spent his boyhood on Grandma Duck’s farm just up the road from Mouseton.  Donald looked up to the older kids in town and followed them on their schemes and adventures.  His fear of abandonment, mistrust of authority, and severe anger issues made young Donald something of a nuisance to Mickey, Dippy and the gang, but they allowed him to tag along because they felt sorry for the little guy.  Poor kid couldn’t even express himself intelligibly, so why make things worse for him?  Young Donald also spent a lot of time playing in an abandoned houseboat docked in Mouseton, dreaming of one day joining the Navy, his blue sailor suit a testament to his dreams of travel and adventure.

As a young man, Donald set his sights on the big city.  He scraped up enough cash to rent an apartment in Duckburg and struck out to join the workforce.  Like many young people with a limited education, Donald had a hard time getting started in a career.  He tried his hand at a number of jobs, including fireman, museum guard, and street sweeper, but found himself ill-suited for almost everything he tried.    Speak slower, Mister Duck.  You’re just too angry, Mister Duck.  Frustrated by his lack of financial success, Donald ignored the frequently-dropped hints of wedding bells from his long-suffering girlfriend, Daisy.  Just when he was gathering up the courage to quit the rat race altogether and enlist, the unexpected occurred:  his deadbeat sister entrusted Donald to become guardian to her triplets, Huey, Dewey, and Louie.   Suddenly Donald found himself saddled with the responsibilities of a much older Duck.  Putting his dreams on hold, Donald moved to the suburbs and devoted himself to providing for his newfound family.

The Angry Young Man

One Christmas, Donald and the boys reconnected with their long-lost rich old Uncle Scrooge McDuck.  The old miser took pity on the boys, and sensing his aversion to charity, appointed Donald an all-purpose employee of McDuck Industries.  Donald and the boys soon found themselves accompanying Scrooge on treasure hunts and archaeological digs, spanning the globe in search of fortune.  Donald’s suppressed thirst for adventure and excitement was awakened anew as he threw himself into his new role of bodyguard/sidekick/pilot/driver/comic relief for the old man.  While he had personally never been happier, as a parent Don felt somewhat conflicted.  His boys were getting a world-class education and experiencing the best that life had to offer, but at the end of the day they had to return to their drab old suburban existence.  Surely the boys would be better off living with the old man; they would provide companionship to Scrooge during his twilight years, while in turn the boys would experience luxury and comfort far beyond anything he could give them.   It was settled.  Donald would leave the boys in the care of Uncle Scrooge, while he fulfilled his childhood dream and shipped out with the Navy.

Adulthood

The boys and Uncle Scrooge continued having adventures while Donald went on to a long and distinguished Naval career.  Donald even joined his childhood pal Mickey Mouse in filming wartime propaganda for bigshot Hollywood director Walt Disney.  Donald retired with his military pension and moved back to Duckburg, where he lived the remainder of his days surrounded by friends and family.  And also he was a superhero.

Superhero

Bombed

From Comics Bomb

1870 Football

If you haven't done so lately, go and read the Carl Barks four-pager September Scrimmage.  I'll wait.

OK.

Dewey's injured on the sidelines, and Huey and Louie are knocked out and lying on the ground.  So who the hell are these guys:

I can accept that Donald and the nephews play on the same football team, I can accept that there's a team called the Dogdale Barkers, I can accept that Uncle Scrooge played football at Webfoot Tech in the Eighties, but I CANNOT ACCEPT NEPHEW DOPPELGANGERS.

 

(This type of thing is the reason I was labeled "high strung" as a kid.)

The New Adventures Of Old Mother Goose

More from Silly Symphonies #5:

Scans courtesy of Crosseyed Cyclops.

Leave Us Not Distract Him From His Repast, Gentlemen

"A Light Gift"

Art by Vicar, Story by Margaretha Wilson

From Donald Duck Adventures #21, Disney Comics, 1992

You Owlhoots Are Sentenced To The Chair

"A Duck Family Christmas"

Art by Vicar, Story by Jack Sutter.

From Donald Duck Adventures #9, Disney Comics, 1991

Nephew Swap

Why are Morty and Ferdie hanging out in Duckburg?   Find out in Comic Book Legends Revealed!

Awwwww.

No snark today, just a cute oil painting by Carl Barks.

From Sekvenskonst.

Them Bones

Donald and Nephews by Hyungkoo Lee.

From The Contaminated.

Cover Toon

Two reinterpretations of classic Donald Duck covers by Robert Goodin, from the Covered blog.

A Ghoulish Discovery

From the most exciting comic about stamp collecting ever produced, "The Gilded Man" by Carl Barks, 1952.

Thanks to Geo X for alerting me to this gem.

Gelatinous Cube

Duck Comics Revue assigns the Duck Family Dungeons & Dragons statistics.

And there is a nuthatch

Four ducks go birdwatching.
By Carl Barks, from Donald Duck Adventures #38 (originally from Four-Color #189)

And then there were six!

Click to read the most violent Disney comic ever.

Via the Disney Comics Forum

Fresh Tykes Up The Alley

"Noise Patrol" by Bengt-Åke Håkansson and Vicar.
From Donald Duck Adventures #20, Disney Comics, 1992.

Whrz th mlk?

"A Sense of Humor" Plot by Gail Renard, Script by Tom Anderson, Pencils by Daniel Branca.
From Donald Duck Adventures #25, Disney Comics, 1990.

Uncomfortable Moments in Archie/MLJ Comics

Stupid Comics has the greatest article ever on "Super Duck, the Cockeyed Wonder."

Super Duck was Archie Comics' lame Donald Duck ripoff, who somehow managed to stay published throughout the 1940's and '50s, despite being terrible.

"Thanks" to Timo Ronkainen for alerting me to this character's existence.

That thing! That waddling blob coming towards us!

"What's for Lunch... Supper?" Written by Tom Yakutis, Pencilled by Bill White, Inked by Larry Mayer. Cover by Todd Kurasowa and Scott Shaw!

As a guy married to a "foodie" I related to this story a little too closely. Too many late nights in the kitchen with the plate of leftovers have given me a physique just like Donald's.

The cover is an homage to the cover of Mad Magazine #1 (Batman: Gotham Adventures #13 also parodied this famous cover). Funny stuff!