had a bunch of Gladstone asks so those are under the cut for y’all;

pretty sure he does, it makes sense for a guy who likes lying around all day (mood), and it’s certainly canon that he likes reading comics! but he also has that esoteric knowledge going on-

and there’s a few stories where it’s casually alluded to

lookit that freakin tome my boy reading Tolstoy here (Gladstone, no, libraries are good places be nice)

yep! that happened, in this Ducktales cartoon based comic-

and to a lesser extent this story where she disguised herself as Gladstone and Scrooge (which actually turns out to be Donald trying to write a story where he’s a detective, but honorable mention because it’s fun)

also look how ridiculous it gets-

positively diabolical is… a way of describing it, yeah.

oh boy howdy yeah, and this one is fun because it’s basically Donald that causes it by trying to get one over Gladstone-

but don’t worry, Donald wins out in the end (you can read the whole thing here, it’s a Carl Barks but I couldn’t find the name)