After looking at Carl Barks’s paintings of Donald Duck and some research about it, I found something interesting. Donald Duck has traits of a stingy and rigid personality. It seemed like an unpopular personality, but people like its character. I think it is the most successful part of the character recreation— it turned a character with a lot of negative traits into a popular character, through humanization and humor. Donald Scrooge’s character has an outstanding trait that he loves money to an extreme degree. He never forgives any opportunities to find golds. He doesn’t find money only to live a wealthy life, the money he owns surpassed that—it becomes his aspiration to find money, like chasing his dream. He could go sailing or mining for finding golds and doesn’t care whatever he does. As long as he can swim in the sea of gold and money, it makes him feel good; money is his spiritual support. I think it is truly an interesting character how persistent he was. Just like what the social commentaries said: “the character shines through his persistence despite the obstacles.”
Tin Tin on the other hand, usually tells stories about the unexpected things happened in another country. Tin Tin is different from Donald Duck’s stories which he brings people on adventures and opens a whole new word for the readers. But Donald Duck is more about how unusually but funny the characters are, how Donald Duck reacts to the situations, and the interactions between his nephews and him also become the highlights.
From my observation about the comic books and comic strips, I think comics strip focus on small pieces of stories while the comic books focus on a certain topic or genre as a whole and the type of content is consistent throughout.
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