Donald Duck, living with his nephews—none of them wear pants. Just sayin’.
Join Donald, his nephews and Uncle Scrooge on their globe-trotting adventures and hilarious escapades in some of the best comics ever made! Ask for ’em by name at your local comic shop!1
What are Huey, Dewey, and Louie doing in Vietnam? The Chilean people began to ask these and other questions . . . 2
First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having survived bonfires, impounding and being dumped into the ocean by the Chilean army, this controversial book is once again back on our shelves. Written and published during the blossoming of Salvador Allende’s revolutionary socialism in Chile, the book examines how Disney products reflect capitalist ideology, and are active agents working in this ideology’s favor. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney, curiously parentless, marginalized and always short of cash, Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart expose how these characters established hegemonic ideas about capital, race, gender and the relationship between developed countries and the Third World. A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman in which he writes: “It is that joy in liberation, that alegría, that spirit of resistance, that I wish to share with America, as the book that Pinochet’s soldiers could not liquidate or Disney’s lawyers stop from entering the United States finally finds its way to its new home, deep into the land that invented Donald Duck and Donald Trump.”3
Introduction to Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (Para leer al Pato Donald: Comunicación de masa y colonialismo), translated from the Spanish by David Kunzle (International General, 1984; corrected and enlarged Hungarian-printed edition ).
Publisher’s note, ibid.
I recently went down a rabbit hole studying Donald Duck's genealogy and how he was related to Scrooge and was saddened that the nephews' parents were never found. A cover up by American intelligence surely.
“Sufferin’ succotash”