Elvira Coot
|
|
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.
Grandma raised Donald from infanthood and might have returned him to his parents at some later point. Her grandnephew Gus Goose came to live with her and helps her out on the farm sometimes. Grandma Duck also gets help from Gus and Jack, the two mice from Disney's Cinderella movie, and usually arranges family gatherings.
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.da:Bedstemor And de:Bewohner von Entenhausen#Dorette Duck fr:Grand-Mère Donald it:Elvira Coot nl:Oma Duck no:Bestemor Duck sv:Farmor Anka