| Donald Duck | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Homer Brightman, Bob Karp, Greg Crosby, Bob Foster |
| Illustrator(s) | Al Taliaferro, Frank Grundeen, Frank Smith, Jim Franzen, Ulrich Schröder, Jorgen Klubien, Daan Jippes, Tony Strobl, Bill Langley, Pete Alvaredo, Larry Mayer, Larry Knighton |
| Current status/schedule | Concluded, in reruns |
| Launch date | (dailies) February 7, 1938 (Sunday) December 10, 1939 |
| End date | May 1995 |
| Syndicate(s) | King Features |
| Genre(s) | Humour Gag-a-day Funny animals |
Donald Duck is an American comic strip by the Walt Disney Company starring Donald Duck, distributed by King Features Syndicate. The first daily Donald Duck strip debuted in American newspapers on February 7, 1938. On December 10, 1939, the strip expanded to a Sunday page as well. Writer Bob Karp and artist Al Taliaferro worked together on the strip for more than 30 years. The strip ended in May 1995.[1]
Starting in 2015, IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics imprint has been reprinting hardcover collections of the Donald Duck strip. As of 2019, five volumes of Donald Duck: The Complete Daily Newspaper Comics and two volumes of Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics have been released.
- ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 130. ISBN 9780472117567.