Elvira Coot
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Elvira "Grandma Duck" Coot is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney's various comic books. She is the grandmother of Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander, as well as the Duck family matriarch. In most stories, she is simply referred to as Grandma Duck. Grandma Duck was introduced to the Disney comic universe by Al Taliaferro in the newspaper comic strips - as a picture in 1940, in person in 1943. Taliaferro found inspiration for her in his own mother-in-law, Donnie M. Wheaton.
According to Keno Don Rosa, Grandma was born around 1855. Later, she married Humperdink Duck, and they had three children named Quackmore Duck (Donald Duck's father), Daphne Duck (Gladstone Gander's mother) and Eider Duck. However, before the setting of current series, she was widowed with the death of her husband. Grandma lives on a farm outside of Duckburg.
In American stories (particularly those written by Carl Barks and Don Rosa), Grandma may or may not have raised Donald after his parents Quackmore Duck and Hortense McDuck left Duckburg during Donald's childhood. In European stories, however, Grandma raised Donald from infancy and might have returned him to his parents at some later point.
Grandma's grandnephew Gus Goose lives with her and helps her out on the farm sometimes. Grandma Duck also gets help from Gus and Jaq, the two mice from Cinderella.
Grandma's farm is the center of the Duck family's annual holiday gatherings, with said gatherings usually arranged by her.
In The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, it is shown that her father is Clinton Coot, her mother is Gertrude Gadwall, her grandfather is Cornelius Coot, and her brother is Casey Coot. In older Italian stories (including Marco Rota's From Egg to Duck), she is sometimes shown as Scrooge McDuck's sister, but this tradition is no longer alive.
She is depicted as driving a Detroit Electric automobile.
According to Don Rosa's timelines, Elvira Coot died in 1970, aged 115, in Duckburg, Calisota.
Grandma made her animated debut in the 1960 Wonderful World of Color episode "This is Your Life, Donald Duck", where she was voiced by June Foray. She also made a non-speaking cameo in Mickey's Christmas Carol. Surprisingly, she never made an appearance on DuckTales.
External links
- [Grandma Duck profile] at [HooZoo]
- [Grandma Duck profile] at [Who's who in Duckburg]
- [Page about her car]
- [Toonopedia entry on Grandma Duck]
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