Why are you people so obsessed by nudity in children's literature?
I guess it is exactly the ostensible asexuality of the Ducks' world that attracts the interest of analysts (and of voyeurs) and that provokes efforts of investigating it on the unshown and unspoken things behind the curtain, things which, however, logically must or should exist there. Unter Brüdern, I don't regard the positivistic collecting of nudity pictures of the story characters as overly thrilling; I find the type of Donaldistic research (as the Institut for Donaldistisk Sexologi presents it in Danish) much more interesting (and maybe one of hundred "nudity" pictures from the comics can be regarded as "sexual", as of sexological interest in any way).
Apropos, just found this picture on that Danish Donaldistic site (from the German Der Donaldist). Hasn't been presented here yet, I think, but it matches perfectly with this thread's subject as well as with the question (the doubt) of its legitimation or sense coming up now ... :P
http://donaldisme.dk/Sexolo20.jpg
With respect to Don Rosa, I seriously have got doubts that he primarily thought of children as readers of his Duck stories ... :P
I didn't see any naked Beagle Boys in that story. They must have edited that part out in the American editions of that story.
No, no, Rosa doesn't show the Beagle Boy buck naked to the reader! He shows, however, Miss Quackfaster seeing him buck naked and fainting, and he clarified that exactly this is what Quackfaster sees and what makes her faint.
Speaking of Don Rosa, he always drew Magica De Spell with an explicit décolleté. I don't think that any other Disney artist does this. I wouldn't be surprised if that is censored in some countries (it would be quite easy to retouch anyway).First-Thanks for the article.
Second-I started this thread because I've seen Donald Duck the way Ducks are intended (sans clothing) in movies like "Fantasia/2000" and "Three Caballeros".
Third-There was a Bertel-Express which mentions this as well. It was #12 I think (One where Donald Duck covers his nudity with the magazine).
Fourth-There's nudity in some Children's Cartoons. Look at (Dare I say this?) nude scenes in the movie "Fantasia" itself and "The Little Mermaid" as well.
And the weirdness goes on...and I'm done for the decade! I'll see all of you in 2010!
