| Clarabelle Cow | |
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Real Name |
Clarabelle Cow |
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First Appearance |
Mickey Mouse in Death Valley (April 2nd 1930) |
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Original Publisher |
King Features Syndicate |
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Created by |
Floyd Gottfredson, Ub Iwerks, and Walt Disney |
Origin[]
Clarabelle Cow is a cartoon character created by Walt Disney in 1930, she first appeared in the Mickey Mouse comic strip on April 2nd 1930 and is the love interest of Horace Horsecollar as well as a friend of Minnie Mouse.
In her debut, it's stated she got her tonsils removed so she could "talk more more freely" and seems to be a talkative yet sweet, anthropromorphic cow who meets up with Mickey and Minnie after her surgery. And while Mickey is annoyed by her due to her talkative nature, Minnie admires her. She is also known to be friends with Harriet Hen and Patricia Pigg.
Public Domain Comic Appearances[]
- Mickey Mouse Comic Strip
- Mickey Mouse in Death Valley (April 2nd 1930)
- Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers (1930)
Public Domain Animated Appearances[]
- All Together (1942)
Notes[]
- Clarabelle Cow's more refined anthropomorphic and named appearance is in the Public Domain due to a lack of renewal for her debut and for strips beyond Jan 13-18 published in 1930. Her debut in the strips predates her animated debut in The Barn Concert (April 5th, 1930) by a few days and The Shindig (July 11th, 1930) by a couple months.
- Not to be confused with the Mechanical Cow who was Oswald The Lucky Rabbit's one-time roommate or the Cow, who technically served as a prototype for her.
- The 1931 book The Adventure of Mickey Mouse featured a cow character that greatly resembled Clarabelle's finalized design, though she was referred to in the book as "Carolyn Cow." This name was used for the Cow as Steamboat Mickey's Epic Crew member in the racing game Disney Speedstorm.
- She would later be the love interest of Goofy (originally named Dippy Dawg and public domain in 2028) in later iterations.
- All Together was WWII propaganda film that fell in the public domain due to being a wartime film made for the National Film Board of Canada.