COAT OF SMILES, parody art of iconic symbols. A duck's hat, a mouse's ears and a smiling yellow button. Three iconic things brought together in one artwork.
The PAPERWALKER Journal is the personal weblog of DUCKLAND creator and award-winning character designer Florian Satzinger – who worked on characters such as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Silvester etc.), Pinky And The Brain, A.J.Hogg and Scooby-Doo, for studios such as Warner Bros., Disney, ReelFX and Zanuck Family Entertainment – in which he shares bits and pieces of his character design work, processes, visual development, inspirations and reference materials of current, past and future projects.
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PLEASE NOTE, the displayed parody artworks of classical cartoon characters are not copies but distinct satiric imitations/caricatures, by exaggerating and transforming the original characters and their related indica (see 'Coat of Smiles') in a way that creates new originals and new meanings, different from the intentions of the originals.

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

The Sailor And The Fashionista

Now available:
- Daisy Fashionista Extraordinaire
Female Duck, inspired by Daisy Duck and fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli who created the iconic shoe-hat (in collaboration with Salvador Dali). Part of the outfit also includes canned emeralds for the opera evening outfit emergency.
- Donald The Sailor
Male duck, inspired by Popeye The Sailor and Donald Duck. It was obvious to merge two of the most famous sailors into one character.

Character parodies/homages
EUR 171/piece
FREE shipping worldwide.
The sale ends on June 30th, 2025.
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Each sheet is a multiple original art print with a hand-drawn part on it (Spinach Blob/Daisy Flower), limited to a number of only 34 pieces per sujet. Printed on Edition Duerer® high quality textured drawing paper. Exactly the very paper I use for drawing.
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About the work: these parody artworks of classical cartoon characters, blended with artists and works from modern art and culture, are not copies but distinct satiric imitations/caricatures, by exaggerating and transforming the original characters and their related indica in a way that creates new originals and new meanings, different from the intentions of the originals.
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* Edition Duerer® A4 high quality grained drawing paper, measurements are 210 mm high x 297 mm width (21 cm x 29.7 cm or 8.3 in x 11.7 in). Picture frame not included.
#contemporaryart #artparody #daisyduck #donaldduck #satire #caricature #museumart #homages #floriansatzinger #limitededition Edition Dürer
I also created a version of 'Daisy Fashionista Extraordinaire' with "big hair." Not only that, but I have to dig out all the preliminary drafts when I get a chance:
(Update) Speaking of which, a few sketches on the development of the fashionista and the sailor:

Friday, May 16, 2025

Female Duck with Coffee-Break Hat

(2025) Florian Satzinger – Salvador Dali's imaginative hats have already inspired me to create a series of drawings depicting absurdly beautiful headgear.

Mixed media (highly pigmented pastels, watercolors and wax crayons) on coarse-grained Edition Dürer® drawing paper.

#salvadordali #imaginativehats #satire #daisyduck #artparody #floriansatzinger

Friday, May 09, 2025

The Snoopy Rex

The Snoopy Rex wasn't really an idea that haunted me, but I drew him anyway.

#satire #CharlesMSchulz #snoopy #woodstock #caricature #characterparody #floriansatzinger

Thursday, May 08, 2025

Zoolander?

What if Daisy Duck teams up with Derek Zoolander? What did I draw here?

#satire #daisyduck #zoolander #floriansatzinger

Sunday, May 04, 2025

East of Porterville

I returned to an older work of mine for a few small additions, which was one of the central pieces in my exhibition at the Karikaturmuseum Krems.
Anyway, the reason is that I stumbled upon a small painting by Carl Barks by chance. Going with the title "East of Porterville" (#21-69, 1969, Carl Barks). And—due to the similar layout—it reminded me of my work. The two paintings clearly tell different stories; Barks' is obviously showing an abandoned house, the mailbox having since become a nesting place for songbirds. Mine, on the other hand, emphasizes an architectural idea. What Donald Duck's "ordinary" suburban house, with its gabled roof and all the rest we know from it, would look like if Carl Barks had opted for a modernist version.
In any case, I had now borrowed the little songbird from Barks's painting. It somehow completes the picture now.

#carlbarks #originalart #painting #eastofporterville #floriansatzinger #donaldduck #KarikaturmuseumKrems #KunstmeileKrems
The photos of Carl Barks' painting are from the auction site Worth Point. All image rights are the property of their respective owners.