As promised, today begins a week long theme to the Cartoon Guru Blog. Some may know, but many do not, that not only am I your Cartoon Guru, I also happen to be one of the world’s foremost experts on a very specific niche of Cartoondom: The Disney Duck Universe, or as it is often affectionately called – The Duckiverse.
What am I talking about when I talk about the Duckiverse? I am talking about the fictional world inhabited by Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Professor Ludwig von Drake, and on and on. Essentially, this is a world created by Carl Barks for the Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge Comics in the middle part of the 20th Century.
The stories usually take place in or around the fictional cities of St. Canard or Duckberg in the fictional US State of Calisota. Though adventures have been known to extend across the globe and even into space. There’s lots of fun history of Duckberg here on Wikipedia.
The Duckiverse includes stories from Donald Duck Comics, Uncle Scrooge Comics, the animated eeries DuckTales and Darkwing Duck as well as a host of spin-off comics and series. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who knows more about the Duckiverse than I, and so this week we will explore the Duck-billed Denizens of the Disney Duckiverse.
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