Just a couple of short OT notes to illustrate this: # As an example of deep Disney comics, Don Rosa's Magnum Opus "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" should

Just a couple of short OT notes to illustrate this: # As an example of deep Disney comics, Don Rosa's Magnum Opus "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" should be pointed out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_Scrooge_McDuck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_Scrooge_M... This book and Don Rosa's works in general are a prime example for love of detail in every aspect, deep characterization of the seemingly flat Disney characters and rigorous background research for the historic embedding (and the embedding in the works of Carl Barks). # Another person benefiting the popularity of Disney comics in Europe was the German translator Erika Fuchs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Fuchs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Fuchs Being an art historian and a member of the educated middle-class, she took the liberty to translate Disney comics in a very literary fashion, with multiple references to classic literature. Many of her word and phrase creations have become part of the German language. # A couple of months ago the French-German rather highbrow TV channel arte screened a documentary that circulated around the internet: The first half of the piece deeply characterized Donald Duck, while the second half applied this characterization to the acceptance of disorientation and personal failure in our society. # The traveling exhibition "Duckomenta": http://www.duckomenta.de/content/engdex.htm http://www.duckomenta.de/content/engdex.htm