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I think Strobl's major problems with his late work (in addition to the new paper, making him "tighten up his work" so the inkers' lines wouldn't bleed on the slicker paper) was the suppar work of his inkers. I saw original pencils of Tony's from 1963 and 1964, annd they were nice and fluid. The quality was miles away from that of the inked lines we saw in the comic books. Strobl's inkers' lines after 1958 were a lot stiffer and had a lot less life in them. He was still a good artist. Although, he did start drawing a lot faster, to have more production, to earn more money, starting in 1959. The quality of his pencils declined some at that time ( less action and movement). But his pencils had a lot more life than we were able to see through the inkers' lines).
Tony was an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and his early comic book work for Western was wonderful.
The same was true for Murray. His Br'er Rabbit drawings are fantastic. He drew very well in the '40s qnd early '50s. By 1956 or so, he had taken the Mickey Mouse serials into a crank-out pattern, and the quality and "freshness" declined. By 1959 or so, it had declined a lot. In the '60s and '70s, it was really poor.

Surprised no one here mentioned Katie Couric's blunder...
http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/cheers-and-jeers/katie-couric-out-of-toon-1396.html

Quote from user: Lars JensenQuote from user: KneonSurprised no one here mentioned Katie Couric's blunder...

http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/cheers-and-jeers/katie-couric-out-of-toon-1396.html
She used a cartoon reference while talking about a cartoon character. It's no big deal, in my opinion.
Not really, no. But it certainly did make the rounds. At least people knew Donald turned 75. ;)

I haven't seen the cartoon but I have the comic strip adaptation in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #580

Quote from user: WBYou know - that brings up something curious.

Has the Wise Little Hen ever shown up in comics BEYOND the Taliaferro intro? I know Peter Pig was one of Donald's earliest friends in veeeeeery early Italian continuity, but....huh.
Apart from covers and various adaptations of the Wise Little Hen cartoon... Not as far as I know, no.

Quote from user: WBYou know - that brings up something curious.

Has the Wise Little Hen ever shown up in comics BEYOND the Taliaferro intro? I know Peter Pig was one of Donald's earliest friends in veeeeeery early Italian continuity, but....huh.
Didn't it also appear as a reprint in an issue of Four Color "Silly Symphonies" comic book, in the mid 1950s? It was also reprinted in Abbeville Press' Silly Symphonies and Film Adaptations hardbound book.

COA doesn't have a listing for a 1950s reprint in Silly Symphonies 4-color. So, maybe I was wrong about that, and the Abbeville book was the only US reprint of the comic strip story. An illustrated (1-drawing, text story of it was printed in the 1950s, and the comic strip story was reprinted in The Netherlands and some other countries. Good Housekeeping had a one page distilled version (with drawings) in 1934, to advertise the film.

I guess when Walt created him he wanted to see if he was a likable character and he was. I don't know why Donald's first appearance was in The Wise Little Hen. Anyway Donald's personality wasn't fully developed when it first came out. His signature temper wasn't introduced until his second appearance which was in the Mickey Mouse cartoon Orphans Benefit which was the cartoon that introduced Donald to the Mickey Mouse universe.