Matilda is not Don's creation

[Anders Christian Sivebæk]

Hi all
>

Lars to Don
>
>If we take a look at your own creation, Scrooge's sister Matilda McDuck,
>it looks to me like you have taken the "Donald/Scrooge design" (except
>for the eyes) and based the look of Matilda on this. Why did you do
>this, rather than have her be a "dogface" or a humanized pig? I'm
>guessing it's because you (consciously or subconsciously) wanted Matilda
>to look like she could be Scrooge's sister.

Others will probably point this out, but just for the record, Matilda is
not Don's creation. 
Her looks is, I think, as Barks has never drawn her or used her in a
story, but he has used her 
on the two family treees he made (was that in the 50'es he made those - to
keep track of the family-relations?)
>

It's important for me to let you note this, as it surprised myself in 1994
to read quotations of Barks saying
that Donald didn't have no parents (and then in turn that there aren't
parental relations in the town?) - that he 
came out of an egg somebody bought at the grocers.
I still wonder why he said this - when I know that he made those two
trees...  when he actually adviced Don 
on the making of the tree. It makes me wonder a bit when my mind is on
ducks... I know why, though...

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Sivebæk
Donaldist