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The true appearance of Daisy Duck was three years later, in the 1940 short Mr. Duck Steps Out. Here she is a "vivacious flirt who [can] wrap Donald around her little finger" and whose long eyelashes are "put to very effective use." She ... now sports the familiar attire of a "puffy sleeved blouse, Minnie Mouse shoes and a perky pink bow" (O’Brien, et al 44). She is, essentially, Minnie Mouse with feathers, or—even more disturbingly—Donald in drag. No particular care was taken into her creation. She existed solely to provide plot complications for Donald. Indeed, for the first several years of her existence she had the same voice artist as Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie did: Clarence "Ducky" Nash.
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The skipper of Daisy Duck was armed and had his gun stood-by. He returned fire aggressively. Subsequently the one remaining attacker who was still upright steered the attacking boat away, in what direction is not known.
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Daisy Duck in her familiar name and design first appeared in Mr. Duck Steps Out (June 7, 1940). The short was directed by Jack King and scripted by Carl Barks. There Donald visits the house of his new love interest for their first known date . At first Daisy acts shy and has her back turned to her visitor. But Donald soon notices her tailfeathers taking the form of a hand and signaling for him to come closer. But their time alone is soon interrupted by Huey, Dewey and Louie who have followed their uncle and clearly compete with him for the attention of Daisy. Uncle and nephews take turns dancing the jitterbug with her while trying to get rid of each other.
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Daisy Duck has been described "the only woman in an environment populated almost exclusively by males," whose "life must get lonely" (O’Brien et al 45). This is a bit of an exaggeration, but she is one of the very few recurring female characters. As such, it is lamentable that she has such a stereotypical, flat personality. Carl Barks seemed to have "little use for heroines" (Blitz 192). Glittering Goldie O’Gilt was created as a gold-digging dance hall girl by Barks, who only used her in one of his stories, but in more recent years she has developed into a more independent, well-rounded character under the pen of Don Rosa. The passing decades have seen each of these characters undergo varying degrees of development, so that Daisy remains flat and anti-feminist, while Goldie--who started out as little better than Daisy--has grown into a more resilient, respectable character.
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Donna Duck served as a precursor for Daisy in both animation and comics. She first appeared in a one-page illustration titled "Don Donald" and published in Good Housekeeping #3701 (January, 1937). The page was illustrated by Thomas "Tom" Wood (1870s - October 4, 1940) who was head of the Walt Disney Studios' publicity department from 1933 until his death. She went on to appear in the "Donald and Donna" comic strip published in Mickey Mouse Weekly from May 15 to August 21, 1937. The Weekly was a United Kingdom publication and the strip was illustrated at the time by William A. Ward. However her co-starring role was brief.
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PreS?"Come along, Daisy," says Mama Duck, but distractions abound and, like any toddler, Daisy can't help lagging behind. Stopping to hop across lily pads with a frog, she is left all alone. Suddenly the sun-drenched pond seems a little frightening, until Mama appears at just the right moment. The inquisitive duckling is an expressive splash of yellow in Simmons's blue-green pondscapes; the story unfolds in a series of watery panoramas amid bold forms and broad strokes of color. Art and text work inseparably here to create a winning character parents will find endearingly familiar and children will know as one of their own. Both cautionary and reassuring, artful and artless, this is a gem of a story and a masterful piece of picture-book artistry.
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