Digital Databases and Donald Duck Weekblad (or Double Data Entry is Double Dutch to Me)

This paper introduces a project examining fan understanding of the character coherence of transnational variations of Donald Duck in stories appearing in pan-European comic books, with those published in the Netherlands providing a central case study. During the 1950s the Dutch publication Donald Duck Weekblad gradually started to introduce locally produced strips alongside their usual American reprints. Other European Disney magazines did the same, and soon began sharing material with each other. Strips produced in these other national centres of production would have to be translated and occ... Mehr ...