About animal faces...

[Olaf Solstrand]

Two things I have noticed about animal faces in Duckburg, that has nothing to 
do with Carl Barks:

-- In some stories, the species of a character changes. Example given, I saw 
some stories in the Norwegian weekly in the 1990's where The Beagle Boys were 
shown with "bear" ears instead of "dog" ears - not to mention that Chip and 
Dale in translations have been everything from squirrels to rabbits!

-- Some times, the species of a character makes a difference. Even though a 
judge is an owl and a person in the audience is a hippo, they still act and 
dress like human beings. But in some stories, species DO matter. In 
http://stp.ling.uu.se/cgi-bin/starback/dcml/story?I+TL+2012-1B by Rodolfo 
Cimino/Alberto Lavoradori, we meet Kingo Kongo, a terrible mountain monster 
that suffers from wild goats. Scrooge manages to catch him, and puts him in a 
cage and takes entrance money for him. On a farm outside Duckburg, a male and a 
female "goat" farmer goes to town to sell some eggs, and decide to go see Kingo 
Kongo. As Kingo Kongo sees these two goats, he gets hungry and breaks out from 
his cage. In other words - something important happens in this story because of 
species. I remember reacting on this the first time I read it, as I believe 
this is the first time I saw someone's species actually BEING their species and 
not just lines on a paper.


Olaf the Blue
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