Carl Barks usually caricatured
Duckburg's changing mayors by portraying them as mere figure-heads
with empty gestures and filled with hot air. This is not terribly
surprising, because an efficient and dedicated mayor in a funny
animal story will not be interesting to the reader.
This page contains panels of most of Duckburg's many mayors in
chronological order. As you browse through them you will probably
be somewhat surprised for several reasons: 1. the common
conception that a mayor in Duckburg is always pig faced does not
hold water, as only half of them were pigs (and none of the
mayors outside Duckburg were pigs!), 2. Barks did not draw as
many mayors as one thinks he did, and 3. it seems that some of
the mayors sat in office for more than one story (which you can
see by looking at the year of the individual stories listed under
the panels and compare the appearances of the mayors - some seem
to be the same person!). Anyway, Barks seems to have used mayors
on a need-to basis, because he never furnished them with
important roles or striking names (except in two instances as
mentioned below).
A small closing note: Scrooge actually ran for office in WDCS194,
but he was not elected...
| DUCKBURG | ||
 WDCS042 1944 |
 WDCS044 1944 |
 WDCS091 Stiffshirt 1948 |
 WDCS138 1952 |
 WDCS186 1956 |
 WDCS196 1957 |
 WDCS201 1957 |
 WDCS239 1960 |
 WDCS252 1961 |
 WDCS263 1962 |
 WDCS264 1962 |
1963 |
 WDCS286 1964 |
 WDCS288 1964 |
 U$58 Hogwilde 1965 |
| OTHER LOCATIONS | |
 FC0062 1945 |
 FC0159 1947 |
1950 |
 WDCS146 1952 |
EXTRA
REAL MAYORS Barks met several mayors in his travels and he even caricatured one (1). Shortly before his promotional tour to Europe in 1994 he wrote to his daughter Dorothy commenting on the trip: The agenda for the trip has grown longer. They tell me I will have dinner with the U.S. Ambassadors in eleven countries. Will be presented with 'keys' to the city by many, many mayors. Custom dictates I must give each mayor a token of appreciation - a meaningful gift of some sort. In my case a small original drawing of a Disney duck. As it turned out Barks met with mayors in Finland, France, Germany, and Italy, and he was bestowed with various honours (2). The following year he received various honours including a special resolution from his old hometown of Merrill (3). |
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 (1) See more HERE |
 (2) See more HERE |
 (3) See more HERE |
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| http://www.cbarks.dk/THEMAYORS.htm | Date 2008-10-26 |
