90 years of Donald Duck: Why Disney’s grumpiest character has been such a success

90 years of Donald Duck: Why Disney’s grumpiest character has been such a success

When Walt Disney first thought of Donald Duck, the world’s most famous animation studio was just a small workshop for creating drawings. It was 1931 and Donald’s name was mentioned in an illustrated book called The Adventures of Mickey Mouse; there was also a duck on the back cover. It was three years before Donald, having become a character, appeared in a short film called The Wise Little Hen. He was going to be a secondary character, but it so…