DCML digest #646

Don Rosa donrosa at iglou.com
Mon Aug 27 16:03:41 CEST 2001


> From: Goofy313g at aol.com (Gilles Maurice)

> Hi, Unca'Keno!!!
> I have some questions to ask you!!!
> Why, according to you, are Huey, Dewey, and Louis raised by Donald?

I do not yet need to decide how to approach this, but I won't change the
near-65-year-old fact that they were dropped off by Donald's sister Della
for him to take care of, at least temporarily. Exactly why she did that,
or what happened to her and their dad, I hope to try my hand at some day.

> Do you think it has happened as in the Taliaferro's first appearance of
them?

Will I say it was because they were such holy-terrors and they blew their
father up with a large firecracker, as Taliaferro had it? I'll wiggle
through that somehow when the time comes.

> What, in your mind, has it really happened with their parents, and do you
think they died?

No... I think I know where they are. I once wrote it into a story 10 years
ago, but we deleted the reference from the final script. I might still use
that idea.

> At least, are you allowed to answer such questions?

I think so, if I do it "right".

> Maybe you don't like to speak about that yet, and it would be
understandable. Maybe you just want reveal that in a comic story, and you
don't want to share your ideas...

Correct!

> And I wanted to ask the same about Scrooge's sisters. Have you a real and
precise idea of what happened with them?

Yes, I do. And the "Crown of the Crusader Kings" story is the prequel to
the story which I will do in a year or so which will reveal that.

> I also wanted to know (I don't remember if I asked that before..) who is
the Quagmire McDuck, from your Family Tree. Is he just here to fill a
blank?

He was created by Barks and mentioned in the same story that gave us
virtually all of those other ancient McDucks you see on my Family Tree...
"The Old Castle's Secret".






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