Ice Festival in Duckburg

Wilmer Rivers rivers at seismo.CSS.GOV
Fri Apr 1 09:24:32 CEST 1994


Per asks about a lithograph of a Barks painting which the Swedish
distributor calls (in Swedish, of course) "Ice Festival in Duckburg".
> It displays a lot of Duckburgians with an emphasis on Donald and Daisy
> on skates.  (Scrooge has skates for rent.)  What painting is this?

It's called "Mardi Gras before the Thaw".  It features practically
EVERYBODY - in addition to all the characters from the Barks stories,
it has Pluto chasing the skating Beagle Boys into a near collision
with Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow, while the unmistakeable
outlines of Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy are seen in shadows as they carry
balloons into a castle which seems more representative of Anaheim than
of Duckburg.  But the statue of Cornelius Coot dominates the skyline,
so it's to be taken as a winter carnival in Duckburg, as the Swedish
distributor has decided in their re-naming of the print.  Among the
gags are that Gyro is skating on stilts, with a propeller mounted to
a motor on his back, and HD&L are building a snowman which looks just
like Donald.  Donald and Daisy are by far the largest figures in the
foreground, and it shows quite prominently that Daisy has green eyes.

Wilmer Rivers



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