Donald Duck is 'classic' character
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Donald Duck isn’t just Mickey Mouse stuff to a Vanderbilt University professor, Donald Ault. He speaks of the man who created the character for Walt Disney with the same reverence other English professors reserve for Dickens and Shakespeare.
Donald may be a quarrelsome, foul-tempered duck in the movies, says Professor Ault, but his character in comic books is incredibly articulate, often philosophising and providing the voice of reason. He believes the Donald Duck comics are literary classics in the same league with works by the British poet, William Blake. So he teaches courses about both. Donald’s comic-book adventures are regular classroom materials. Some are moralistic — the unhappiness that comes when Donald looks for a way to get rich without working.
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Press, 8 May 1985, Page 16
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