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When I read Scrooge in the comics I hear Alan Young and the same goes for Gyro, the nephews and many others. However when I read Donald I just can't imagine him squawking in the way he does in the cartoons. Donald in the comics is so much more articulate in the comics that its almost like a different character in some ways. I know that in the cartoons Donald is way more articulate now than in the old days.
In the comics Donald is a more fully developed character while in many of his old cartoons he is not much more than a hillarious hothead. The Donald in the comics can be brave (vacation time) and quite intelligent at times (the mastery stories). In the cartoons Donald would not be allowed to be victorious very often, whether his opponent would be a bumble bee, the nephews, or a horde of ants.
While I love both versions, the two are so different from one another in various ways.

Quote from user: king scrooge the firstDonald in the comics is so much more articulate in the comics that its almost like a different character in some ways.
Oh, so?

"Now, you boys are young. You've got the best part of your life ahead of you. If you go to school and study hard, someday you will grow up to be a man in a man??s world. It's the highway or the road. Life is no bed of roses. No sir, boys, you might as well realize it. Education is absolutely essential. Crime does not pay! Uh-uh! Crime does not?¦ WAK!" ??Donald F. Duck

Quote from user: AzureBlueTrust David to come up with the exceptions.
Heh, thanks. But there are more:

"I might as well be in a concentration camp!" ??Timber
"It didn't say 'positively'!" ??The Vanishing Private
"Maybe I??m just a duck, but I'm human!" ??Early To Bed

Right up until Carl Barks left the studio, half the humor is in Donald saying eloquent things that his voice would seem to work against.
But the moment he's gone, this is gone...

I would WANT to hear the squawking of Ducks for all of them, and Gyro crowing like a rooster. But, I have to admit I DON'T hear them squawking their comic book dialogues.

Quote from user: RichieFor the folks who can't understand him, the DVD releases and its subtitles would have been a revelation!
Danger, Will Robinson! The DVD subtitles were often written by someone who couldn't understand Donald either??and wasn't given any scripts or behind-the-scenes documents to help them. In the scene I quoted above, "It's the highway or the road" is transcribed as "it's the hard way of the world"; in another cartoon, the song "Merrily We Roll Along" is transcribed as "Now We Gently Roll Our Dog." You can't make this stuff up.

One of my favorite Donald Duck lines is from A Day In The Life Of Donald Duck, a 1956 episoide of the Disneyland television series. Walt Disney reads a letter written by a fan who asks, "Dear Donald, why do you have webbed feet?" An indignant Donald responds, "Because I'm a duck, you little smart-aleck."

Portions of six Donald Duck cartoons were included in the December 10 1961 "Kids Is Kids" episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color. New scenes with child psychologist Ludwig Von Drake connected the individual cartoons. Ludwig was even inserted into the cartoons. He was studying "Family X" so he could give "Mister X" advice on how to deal with the kids. He concluded that Mister X was even nuttier than the kids! One of the cartoons featured is Lucky Number, one of my favorites. Donald wins a new car in a radio contest but destroys the car because he thinks his nephews are playing a trick on him. I love the scene where he overinflates the balloon tires so they float away like real balloons. Kids Is Kids was released on videocassette in 1981 but I don't think it has ever come out on DVD or Blu-Ray.