Kwaak!
The trouserless duck in the sailor's hat puts even Helsingin Sanomat to shame. He has more readers than the largest daily newspaper in the Nordic region.
And at 56 years of age, Donald Duck is more popular than ever. What is the secret of the phenomenal popularity of the strip cartoon albums that go by the Finnish name of Aku Ankka?
"Aku Ankka came at the right time", says artist Kaj Stenvall, who was born in December 1951, in the same month and year that Donald's comic albums made landfall in Finland.
Stenvall learnt to read with the help of the Aku Ankka strips, just like hundreds of thousands of others. And the duck won over the hearts and minds of the baby-boomer generation.
Now they order the comics for their children and their grandchildren.
The circulation of Aku Ankka has grown for seven straight years in succession and hit a new record early this year, at 320,514 copies.
Aku Ankka is Finland's largest magazine, not including some free magazines put out to customers by store chains and the like.
Goosey's Gabbings... So many people have scratched their head about the fact that Donald Duck has forever had a shirt on, and never any pants. I think a more curious question is why Bugs Bunny has no pants, no shirt, no clothes--period, but he wears gloves? Is he a relative of Howie Mandel??
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