Wasn’t goofy with a cow?! Seriously, in France her name was Clarabelle!
There was,Carine,a cow pal of Mickey’s named Clarabelle, as well as a fellow named Horace Horsecollar and a chicken but I can’t remember her name right at the moment.They were retired in the late forties or early fifties due to unpopularity.
IDBB
Oh yes, I forgot about the chicken and the horse too! ha! I am so glad you reminded me.
I get to out-geek you.
Nope – laRosa didn’t write this. It was written by SF/Fantasy author Jack L. Chalker, and printed by his own Mirage press. Whoever was putting together the McDuck tree over at Gladstone (and I’m not sure if it was la Rosa or someone else) acknowledged a debt to Chalker in the course of doing so. I thought that was pretty neat, since the folks at Disney wouldn’t even grant Chalker permission to put Scrooge McDuck on the cover. Chalker had to settle for a disembodied hat, pince-nez, coat, and cane.
Clara Cluck
I refuse to be out-geeked! 
Seriously, we must be talking about two different things, because I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” was first printed in the United States in Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge numbers 285 through 296 between the years of 1994 and 1996— I have those comics in front of me now. the credits for the first part read as follows:
Notice the name is "Rosa, not “la Rosa.” I’ve read that entire series, along with Rosa’s commentary on how he researched Bark’s stories and other comics for clues as to the backgrounds of Scrooge and other characters, several times, and I don’t remember hearing of Chalker.
As for the Duck family tree (and I now have that before me too), Rosa says in the commentary following it that his main sources were a smaller family tree Barks drew up for his own use in the 50’s and various relatives and relationships mentioned in various Barks comics. He doesn’t mention Chalker.
Here’s the credits for the tree, by the way:
I’m curious about the work you say Chalker put together, though. Tell me more about it.
OK, little trivia question!
Why is Mickey and Minnie not married?
Damn, I really really tried to stop the post with the spelling mistake, well grammar one…
Jack Chalker, founder of Mirage Press and author of the “Ring World” books
, once put together “the definitive biography of Scrooge McDuck”, heavily footnoted and well-researched. It came out in 1974 and is very hard to get. I lucked out.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0883585022/qid=1043093894/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-1262074-4384853?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
In one of the Gladstone comics they acknowledged their debt to Chalker. I don’t have it here in front of me, so I can’t tell you which issue, but it’s in there. In any case, Chalker’s book predates even the founding of Gladstone comics or Rosa’s participation.
So I’m one geek up. Your serve.
I find it strange I’ve never heard of the book, and that I’ve never read Rosa mentioning it, especially since he was such a thorough researcher. I guess he stuck to the “official” Disney comics.
Was Chalker’s work written in comic form, by the way, or was it just text?
The fact remains that Rosa wrote the work I mentioned, though. And that Rosa didn’t mention Chalker in his commentary on the family tree. I’ll go over Rosa’s L&ToSM commentary again to see if I can find a mention of Chalker, but I think I would remember it.
I’d like to read that Chalker book. Too bad it’s out of print.
I’m sure Chalker was mentioned in the comic version – I was pleasantly surprised to find it listed there, IIRC.
Chalker’s work was purely in prose. I don’t think he’s an artist and, as I say, he couldn’t get Disney’s permission to reprint any artwork, even for the cover. He did have Carl Barks’ assistance, however. Chalker has a bit about it on his own website, cited above. You’ve got to scroll most of the way down the “Works” page to find it, though.
If we can get back to the Goofy question here for a second, I think this question is one that may be boggling the minds of Disney obsessives for years to come. To refresh :
1 : Goofy did have both a wife and a son, both of whom were seen in a few shorts back in the 50’s. The wife was never given a name; the son was only identified as “Junior.”
2 : When “Goof Troop” came along, he was given a son named “Max” who really only bears a passing resemblance to the 50’s “Junior.” In one of the “Goof Troop” episodes, Goofy is heard to say “Gawrsh, I’ve never had a wife before.”
2a : One possible explanation for this is the lack of Goofy’s long term memory skills. He simply can’t remember having had a wife.
However :
3 : Disney tries to weasel out of this discreancy by saying that Max was adopted, not a fact that I believe is ever explicitly stated in the series.
Which leads us to a new question :
3a : If Max was an adopted son, whatever became of Junior?
or we can just be satisfied with
4 : If we, for whatever reason, feel we have to accept that there is some realistic explanation to the differences between the 50’s Goofy and the “Goof Troop” Goofy, we should also be willing to accept the idea that dogs can talk.
One might say the reason for the discrepancy noted by Eutychus is that Goofy wasn’t/isn’t the father of Goofy and the husband of Mrs. Goof…but Mr. Geef was. And that Mr. Geef is actually a separate individual, or at least, a version of Goofy from a separate fictional universe than the one Disney currently is using. (Earth-B Goofy, perhaps?)
On the topic of Goofy himself saying that he’s never had a wife, it is possible that he was telling the truth, and that Max is still his biological child…If Goofy had had a child with a girlfriend, or even a fiancée, who then either left him or died. Not exactly a very “Disney” scenario, but still technically possible.
If you think THIS is bad, you should hear me and my Dad go on about the origins of the Chipmunks and Chipettes sometime. We’re both bulls**ters of the highest degree. 
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Who’s Who in Duckburg. Enjoy.