Donald Duck in comics birth. According to Carl Barks, Donald's parents are Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck. Donald’s sister is named Della Duck, but neither she nor Donald's parents appear in the cartoons or comics except for special cases, like "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck". According to Rosa, Donald and Della are twins. Taliaferro introduced Donald's car, on July 1, 1938. It is recognizable by its license plate number "313". Though Donald briefly drove other cars both in Taliaferro's strip and in later stories, this car would stay with Donald throughout the following decades. The car's constant breakdowns and need of repairs
How to Read Donald Duck of his non-fiction works: "How to Read Donald Duck" and "The Empire's Old Clothes" (1983). According to McClennen, a strength of the former work is its critical analysis of the fictional world inhabited by the Disney characters. The characters in question have formulaic ethics and resolve their problems in simplistic ways. The work critiques the superficial depiction of the world by the Disney comics, and the roles the Third World and the working class play in the stories. "How to Read Donald Duck" analyzes the internal ethical logic of the Disney comics. The writers hoped to unmask the "false innocence"