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So has anymore information been released about this book? Will it be a series of specials reprinting just the Barks redrawn JW/DD material or will it be reprints of his original things that have and haven't come stateside as well?

Quote from user: Lars JensenQuote from user: LadyQuacklyQuote from user: Lars JensenNo, they say that Ludwig Von Drake is "dead" in *their* stories. In other words: Egmont's writers and artists are not allowed to use Ludwig in stories they make for Egmont. But Ludwig is still used in stories by other publishers, such as the Italians. And Egmont do publish those stories in Scandinavia, Germany etc.
Yeah...Don Rosa would have liked to use him in his own comics, but his editor(s) didn't like Ludwig and wouldn't allow it. It was also Rosa who suggested that Ludwig married Matilda McDuck, thus officially making him Donald's uncle; but Egmont put the kibosh on that idea, too. A lot of Rosa fans liked the idea, though, and have held to it since then; it's even reflected in some of our fanfics. :)
According to the cartoons and comics, Ludwig is Donald's uncle, so it's already official. And, from what I've heard, in the TV cartoon "Kids is Kids" it is established that Ludwig is unmarried.
I saw "Kids is Kids" (I have the video in fact), and yep, Ludwig says he's a bachelor. Of course, that came out in the Sixties, I think; and the Rosa comics came out much later. The marriage thing was Rosa's own theory anyway; no other Disney Duck artist that I know of seems to have suggested it.

Ludwig has a family name of Von Drake. He, must, therefore, be on Donald's mother's side of his family. He could Donald's mother's brother, or Donald's maternal grandmother's brother, and not have been married. I'd like to think that he is Donald's grandmother's brother. Grandma Duck is likely his fraternal grandmother, with his father having been her son. So Ludwig is not HER brother (and rightly so), as they are never mentioned as being siblings, nor do they behave as such.

Quote from user: ramapithQuote from user: Robb_KLudwig has a family name of Von Drake. He, must, therefore, be on Donald's mother's side of his family.
Huh?
Are you implying that everyone on Donald's father's side has to have the last name Duck?
I'm completely confused!
Sorry, I think you may be right that he is a more distant relative than Donald's grandmother's brother. I remember now in the first Ludwig Von Drake dell comic book's first story (drawn by Tony Strobl) that someone said that Ludwig was a distant relative of Donald. As a great uncle, he could be Grandma Duck's brother, and Grandma Duck had married into the Duck family. Or, he could be Donald's great, great uncle, and had been a brother of a woman who had married into Donald's Duck line. Ludwig could also be Donald's mother's brother. But, I doubt that Donald's mother was an Austrian immigrant. Ludwig is defined as a bachelor. So, we assume that he was never married. Otherwise he'd have been described as a divorcée or widower. Given that assumption, he couldn't have married into Donald's family, himself.

So, it seems most likely to me, that Ludwig is one of Donald's grandmother's brothers.

Quote from user: Michiel PI haven't read "The Family Tree Spree" and must base my assumptions on Gilles Maurice's description of its plot:

Quote:In Tony Strobl's and John Liggera's story "The Family Tree Spree", from "Ludwig Von Drake" #3, Donald Duck shows to Ludwig von Drake his family tree, that has been made by a swindler who made him believe he had very prestigious ancestors. Then Ludwig builds Donald's family tree himself ("Look! Your only ancestors who weren't simple mortals were a ruffian and a pseudo-scientist who wanted to prove that Earth wasn't round!"). Eventually, Ludwig realises he's from the same family and both of them decide to dig a hole and bury the trees in it...
http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/trees/ducktrees/index.html

Gilles also provides scans of two panels from the story:

http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/trees/ducktrees/treeststrobl2us.jpg

http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/trees/ducktrees/treestrobl2.html

From "The Family Tree Spree", it follows that a) Donald and Ludwig have common ancestors and b) at least one of these ancestors is named Duck (Columbust Duck, see picture).

So Ludwig is related to Donald on the Duck side of his family. Presumably Ludwig's mother was a Duck.
As Daisy has the family name, "Duck", and she is not in his immediate family, we can assume that she is a distant cousin on Donald's father's side, or a cousin by marriage, or totally unrelated, with the same surname.

With Ludwig, we can make the same assumptions. We CAN'T really know whether or not he is from Donald's mother's or his father's side of his family, as his mother or grandmother or great grandmother could have married into The Duck family. The reason he has a name different from "Duck" is because his father came from a line that was not direct from the "Ducks". But we can't know which side he came from, because there are no authoritative stories which provide that information. I would not want to use some obscure Italian 1970s or 1980s or 1990s story (if such exists) to define Ludwig's relationship with the other Ducks.

Quote from user: Roger NorthI'd like to think that Ludwig is Donald's uncle by married to Scrooge's sister Matilda. It makes more sense than any of your theories. No offense to any of you. As for Daisy being related to Donald. That's not true at all she just has the same last name by coincidence even though she is related to Donald's nephews on their father's side of the family while Donald is related to them on their mother's side.
I agree, even though Rosa has played around a bit with Ludwig's background and perhaps taken the term uncle/aunt too literate the result is believable and logical.

Considering Ludwig's relation to Donald

a) Ludwig is Donald's uncle
b) Ludwig is a bachelor
c) Ludwig and Donald have common ancestors whose last name is Duck

i) Ludwig can't be a brother of Donald's father, whose last name is Duck and not Von Drake
ii) Ludwig can't be a brother of Donald's mother, whose last name is McDuck, according to Carl Barks
iii) Ludwig can't be a brother of Donald's paternal grandfather, whose last name is Duck
iv) Ludwig can't be a brother of Grandma Duck, Donald's paternal grandmother, because there's nothing in the comics to suggest that they're siblings

v) Ludwig can't be a brother of Donald's maternal grandfather, whose last name is McDuck
vi) Ludwig could be a brother of Donald's maternal grandmother, but this is contradicted by the fact that Donald and Ludwig have common ancestors on the Duck side of the family, i.e. Donald's father's side.

vii) Ludwig is neither Donald's uncle, nor his great uncle, but only an uncle in the loose sense of "senior male relative"

This is all pretty straightforward, isn't it?

Quote from user: Robb_KWith Ludwig, we can make the same assumptions. We CAN'T really know whether or not he is from Donald's mother's or his father's side of his family, as his mother or grandmother or great grandmother could have married into The Duck family. The reason he has a name different from "Duck" is because his father came from a line that was not direct from the "Ducks". But we can't know which side he came from, because there are no authoritative stories which provide that information.
I agree that the Duck Family Tree could or indeed must have branched in many different directions. Ludwig and Donald have common ancestors, but then maybe Ludwig's ancestors' line branched and mavbe later even intertwined with the McDucks? Who knows on which side of the family Ludwig belongs?

But why shouldn't we go for a simpler solution? Ludwig's and Donald's Duck ancestors certainly point that way. Why don't we choose to have Ludwig simply on Donald's (grand)father's side of the family?

I'm just saying what I choose to believe. You don't have to agree with me.