Praise for Donald Duck's rhetoric skills

Donald Duck appeared in a comic strip for the first time 75 years ago, recalls M. Martín Ferrand writing in the Spanish daily ABC: "Among the many different fictitious figures that enrich our culture and shape our Western civilisation, Donald Duck … plays a special role. He is a fabrication of the Walt Disney industry but he has a lot to do with the way we are. He embodies the meaning of protest, with or without a goal, and he is the great master of contemporary rhetoric. His speeches seem unintelligible, just like those of the majority of great leaders, and he developed his own style of expression which - although the comparison is somewhat perverse - is as striking as that of Demosthenes, Cicero, [the president of the First Spanish Republic] Emilio Castelar or, a little more contemporary, [Spanish politician] Fernando Suárez."

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