“Seafood Blues” from Donald Duck #268, 1988. Art by William Van Horn. Script by John Lustig & William Van Horn. ©Walt Disney Company
Although I concentrate on Last Kiss these days, I spent decades writing Disney comics—mostly Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories. For Disney, I started out doing one-page gags, then graduated to two-page stories and then finally stories that ranged from 10 to 28 pages.
The one-pager pictured here is one of my first and is from 1988: “Seafood Blues.”
The art is by my pal—the great William Van Horn. Bill—who was already established as a Disney artist and writer—provided me with invaluable advice and help on this script. We teamed up on many stories over the years and remain close friends.
I get the gag, and it would make an excellent Sunday strip, but Daisy doesn’t seem like much of a girlfriend in this installment if she’s always wanting to go to fancy/expensive establishments.
Lee, I think one of the strengths of the Disney duck universe (as developed by Carl Barks) was that the characters were not just one-note or totally consistent. So, in one story, Daisy could a force for good and in another (and even in the same story) she could be petty and self-centered. The same—even more so—could be said about Donald.
In fact, that’s one of the things I loved most about working in the duck universe was exploring the different aspects and contradictions of the characters.
That said, Donald was usually pretty cheap and often pretty broke. So Daisy wanting to go out even to a hamburger joint might have activated Donald’s inner Scrooge! 🙂
Classic! So hilarious …surreal !
Am laughing at 430 in the morning , I had to forward this to my family of three who happen to be all Chefs and I will be asking my spouse to make French Toast for breakfast!
LOL!
Couldn’t help but forward it to the rest of my clan .