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Past Halloween, on to Thanksgiving (another commission)...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/KneonT/Disney_Thanksgiving.jpg

@Kneon - great Goofy & Pluto :) Mickey's nose is a very little bit to big, as Don's cap. I think it would look like really great with colors.

Quote from user: MS@Kneon - great Goofy & Pluto :) Mickey's nose is a very little bit to big, as Don's cap. I think it would look like really great with colors.
Thanks! I kind of wondered about Don's cap myself, but for this piece I was referencing Jack Kinney's animation model sheets, not the comic book style. (I noticed Don's bowtie was unusually large on those sheets too... hmm... a trend?)

This was just a quick sketch... probably won't color. I'm thinking of some Scrooge Christmas pics that I might color, though.

Quote from user: Roger NorthI think it's weird that Scrooge would dress up as Santa and give Huey Dewey and Louie an invoice.
Well, they have to learn the hard way that there's no such thing as a free lunch... or teddy bear. ;)

Quote from user: FuriennaYeesh, that's cheap, even for coming from Scrooge. Nice drawing though.
I think Scrooge has become soft over the years. Gotta toughen those kids up!

But since it's Christmas, he didn't make them pay any sales tax. And the shipping and handling was free... mostly. Only a $1 markup on each toy. ;)

Quote from user: FuriennaWell, I prefer the "softer" Scrooge. And you don't make people, especially not your little grand-nephews, pay for their Christmas gifts!
Well, they could probably work it off instead of paying cash... he's not THAT cruel. If they preferred a payment plan, the interest would be reasonable. They ARE family, after all. ;)

EDIT: So now this begs the question... just HOW Scroogey is Scrooge supposed to be, anyway? He seemed much "harder" in the comics than he ever did on DuckTales. He wasn't above exploiting his nephews by paying them near slave wages to act as his pack mules (if he ever actually followed through and paid them at all!)

To me, that Scrooge wouldn't flinch at billing the nephews for toys, especially if he thought a lesson could be learned in the process ( like you can't always expect some Santa Claus to give you what you want in life... you have to go out and earn it!)

But that's just my understanding. And I'm sure this thread will get derailed real quick. ;)

Quote from user: FuriennaI'm sorry I started heading off topic, but I can honestly say, that I prefer the "Duck Tales" version of Scrooge to the comics version. But I don't think even the less pleasant version of Scrooge would demand the boys to pay for their Christmas presents. He would just get them very cheap presents.
Ha ha ha... not your fault. I derailed the thread myself. ;)

And I would agree... DuckTales Scrooge would buy them something... cheap. Underneath it all, he was a cuddly old curmudgeon.

Quote from user: FuriennaI'm sorry I started heading off topic, but I can honestly say, that I prefer the "Duck Tales" version of Scrooge to the comics version.
I find him somehow too soft in "Ducktales", but speaking of "the" comics version, one must notice of course that he appears there in several character variants or shadings, too: Barks's Scrooge of the first five years up to "Only a Poor Old Man" is not yet the same as his later one. While, in the name of peace and harmony, we wil applaude to the family solidarity of the later stories, the early ones with a nasty and not seldomly consciousless Scrooge acting as Donald's antagonist produce their own furious dynamic. The Italian Scrooge then has also a bit more of a choleric person and doesn't hesitate to use violence, also against his nephew (e. g. chasing Donald with a shotgun).

Quote:But I don't think even the less pleasant version of Scrooge would demand the boys to pay for their Christmas presents. He would just get them very cheap presents.
There exists exactly such a cover by Don Rosa, by the way:

http://www.don-mcduck.de/cover/gc_weih_1.php

Kneon's cover maybe is indeed a bit exaggerated, but I liked the joke. I think, while it may be noncredible in actual stories, grotesque-satirical exaggeration can be an excellent humour producer when coming to cover gags. (I have no doubt, though, that Western Publishing would have rejected the gag when Barks's would had come up with it: would have been an attack on the kiddies' Christmas idealism and lead to an enduring violation of their soul balance ;))

By the way, are that in the window supposed to be snowflakes or stars?