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Petra van Cronenburg
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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social I'm sitting in the picture above (only with central heating), reading the stories about Donald Duck (since my childhood).
In Europe, they are published under licence by different publishers and have changed very much. Donald is still the role model of kindness, love, and curiosity, of course still clumsy.
But the topics have much to do with greed, climate, and environment. Even Scrooge has changed: he has to learn that his behaviour

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French Donald Duck book. Cover: Donald waters a tree, instead of fruits there are sacks full of dollars. Scrooge stands under the tree, a big sack is falling on his head.
Petra van Cronenburg
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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social would ruin the world and that he has to act differently. Best teachers: his nephews.
In the title story above e.g., Scrooge dreams to change every tree into a dollar-growing tree. Only Donald and the nephews see that would destroy nature. They fight, and when the trees of greed nearly destroy Scrooge, he has to learn ...
I don't like Disney as a company - but that's also a Disney product. Made in Europe.

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Disney like many big companies, could hire some of the best artists and good artists deal in truth instinctively.

Petra van Cronenburg
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@futurebird@sauropods.win oh yes. In Europe, especially the Italian and French cartoonists of Donald Duck are legendary ... (I have no idea, if the American version of these books changed like this, we have nearly no American stories included).

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