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Carl Barks
Barks in 1982
Born
(1901-03-27)March 27, 1901[1] Near Merrill, Oregon, U.S.
Died
August 25, 2000(2000-08-25) (aged 99) Grants Pass, Oregon, U.S.
Area(s)
Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker
Notable works
Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Daisy Duck, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander, The Junior Woodchucks, Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, Neighbor J. Jones, Glittering Goldie, Cornelius Coot, John D. Rockerduck
Oil paintings of his duck characters
Spouse(s)
Pearl Turner
(m. 1923; div. 1929)
Clara Balken
(m. 1932; div. 1951)
Garé Williams
(m. 1954; died 1993)
Children
2
Signature
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.[2]
Barks worked for the Disney Studio and Western Publishing where he created Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961).
He has been named by animation historian Leonard Maltin as "the most popular and widely read artist-writer in the world".[3] Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books."[4] Beginning especially in the 1980s, Barks' artistic contributions would be a primary source for animated adaptations such as DuckTales and its 2017 remake.
^"United States Social Security Death Index", index, FamilySearch (accessed 20 February 2013), Carl Barks, 25 August 2000; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
^"Hall Of Fame". Comic-Con International. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
^Carl Barks: Conversations (2003), ed. by Donald Ault: The Carl Barks Story: The Creator of Scrooge McDuck Moves into the Limelight, Disney News 19 no. 1 (Winter 1983–84), p. xi.
^"A Timeless Classic For All Ages" (PDF). Fantagraphics. 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
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