Daisy Duck Daisy Duck Daisy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1940 by Walt Disney Productions as the girlfriend of Donald Duck. Like Donald, Daisy is an anthropomorphic white duck, but has large eyelashes and ruffled tail feathers to suggest a skirt. She is often seen wearing a hair bow, blouse, and heeled shoes. Daisy usually shows a strong affinity towards Donald, although she is often characterized as being more sophisticated than him. Daisy was introduced in the short film "Mr. Duck Steps Out" (1940) and was incorporated into Donald's comic stories several months later. She appeared in 11 short films
The Wreck of the Hesperus (with Paddles)". In the 1948 Donald Duck "Pearls of Wisdom" comic strip, the triplet ducklings are rowing a boat called "Hesperus II". In the 1950 Warner Brothers cartoon, "The Ducksters", Porky Pig demands that Daffy Duck tell him "In what latitude and longitude did the Wreck of the Hesperus occur?". In a 1941 Popeye short, titled "Child Psykolojiky", a picture of the Hesperus with caption is seen hanging on Pappy's wall. In "First Among Sequels", book five of the Thursday Next series, the character of Anne Wirthless travels into the poem and tries to rescue the captain's daughter. She saves