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• Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Donald got comics in Sweden that characterized him completely differently than how he’s shown in the US. I think he’s a much better character there.

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  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Donald was always a more appealing character to me than Mickey Mouse because he’s so relateable. He has trouble with love and with money and he’s impulsive and impatient.
    Mickey, on the other hand, is such a nothing-character. He’s basically just a brand mascot at this point, with no recognizeable character traits.
    And while there are iterations of Mickey that actually give him a personality, it’s much less consistent than Donald.

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    • DroneRights@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And I don’t understand why anyone likes Minnie either. She has exactly one more character trait than Mickey, and it’s “girl”. Which is just a perfect little example of patriarchy’s normalisation of manhood and why the 1900s sucked at writing female characters

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      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah they probably only created Minnie just to have a female character, without thinking about trivial stuff like a personality. Same for Smurfette

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recall them being popular in Germany, too, but yeah, they never took off like that here in the US.

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  • snor10@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Disney had (has?) a very strong cultural position in Sweden.

    It’s a Christmas tradition to watch a TV broadcast of a Disney cartoon medley that started 1960 and is still going strong, the majority of Swedes watch it every year.

    Before the dedicated cartoon channels made their debut in the latter half of the 90’s, the only time you could watch cartoons where on Friday night, and it was all Disney. It was called Disneydags, or Time for Disney translated.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t think of anyone I grew up with in America in the 80s who read Disney comics at all.

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  • snor10@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sweden in the 90’s and 00’s kids would collect the Disney pocket books like they where shonen manga.

    The spines would make a continuous picture and having no gaps where a mark of pride.

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    • kerf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Spot on! I looked upon my collection with pride when I visited my parents last time. Even have most of the early ones where only half of the spreads were printed in color

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      • snor10@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha, nostalgin alltså.

        Samlade aldrig själv, men hade vänner som var galna i Kalle Anka pocketböcker lol.

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    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Was it also possible to subscribe to the pocket books in Sweden? I had a subscription growing up in Iceland (Donald Duck is huge over there as well)

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      • snor10@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t collect them myself, so I actually don’t know.

        But it seems like a pretty safe bet to assume you could.

        What is Donald Duck called in Icelandic? In Sweden he is kalled Kalle Anna and in Denmark I think Anders And.

        Hewey Dewey and Lewey is called Knatte Fnatte and Tjatte.

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    • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The spines would make a continuous picture and having no gaps where a mark of pride.

      That usually only happens in “complete collections” or something like that in the US. With any medium, I mean. Movies, books, comics, etc… And it doesn’t always happen, either.

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