Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck 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.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). Cartoonist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books."
August 25, 2000, Grants Pass, Oregon, United States
Place Of Birth
Merrill, Oregon, USA
Profession
Writer, Animation Department
Nationality
American
Spouse
Margaret Wynnfred Williams (m. 1954–1993), Clara Balken (m. 1938–1951), Pearl Turner (m. 1921–1930)
Children
Dorothy Barks, Peggy Barks
Parents
Arminta Johnson, William Barks
Siblings
Clyde Barks
Awards
Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
Movies
Donald's Nephews, Mr. Duck Steps Out, Modern Inventions, The Old Army Game, Donald's Better Self, Trombone Trouble, Donald's Ostrich, Old MacDonald Duck, Donald's Vacation, Bone Trouble, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Self Control, Donald's Tire Trouble
TV Shows
DuckTales
Star Sign
Aries
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Quote
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"I want to thank the Disney Studio. Not for myself, but for all those comic book fans -- the kids who used to buy my comic books for a dime and are now selling them for $2,000." (Disney Legend trophy acceptance speech, October 22, 1991)
2
Writing stories is a lot like writing poetry. It all has to be set to a certain tempo. Everything has to be in its right place at the right time.
3
I visualized stories in plot sequences.
4
I was a fizzle as a cowboy, a logger, a printing press feeder, a steelworker, a carpenter, an animator, a chicken grower, and a barfly. Perhaps that all helped in writing my stories of the ineptitudes of poor old Donald.
5
If you were a prima donna down at the Disney studio, if you went in thinking you were a genius and then you had to work with a bunch of geniuses, why you soon got the ego knocked out of you.
6
I polished and polished on the scripts and drawings until I had done the best I could in the time available.
7
Errors and boo-boos bother me years after I've forgotten every other feature of a story.
8
It wasn't genius or even unusual talent that made the stories good, it was patience and a large waste-basket.
9
Some of the main people who influenced my drawing style were Winsor McCay, Opper [Frederick Opper], and Hal Foster. Roy Crane, who drew 'Buzz Sawyer', also had a direct, simple style.
10
"My age is 80 and I don't look a day over 79 1/2." (1981)
11
I finally decided to do a watercolor to show that I'm really a hairy-chinned rebel at heart.
12
I've always looked at the ducks as caricatures of human beings.
13
One of the greatest difficulties in handling characters is in figuring out how each character is going to react to a certain situation. In that respect, Uncle Scrooge is fairly easy to keep in line. He will always choose the cheapest way to meet an emergency.
14
Donald [Duck] is my favorite character, because he's like all my friends, my neighbors, myself, he's just Mister Everyman.
15
I have no cartoonists in my ancestral tree whatsoever, no artists that I know of, no writers that I know of. I was just sort of a mutant that came along.
16
Recognition is fine if the rewards are high enough to repay me for loss of privacy and freedom of expression.
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Fact
1
In 1999, Comic's Journal published a list of top 100 comics in the 20th century. Carl's Donald Duck stories ranked #7 on the list. His Uncle Scrooge stories ranked #20.
2
Has been named "Disney legend" in 1991 (October 22) and so put his name and hand prints on the sidewalk around the theater of Disney Studios (California).
3
Two daughters, Dorothy and Peggy.
4
Named a "Disney Legend" [1991]
5
Most famous for his numerous humorous adventure comic books featuring Donald Duck and his relations, most notably his own creation, Uncle Scrooge McDuck.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
DuckTales: Remastered
2013
Video Game characters
è solo questione di punti di vista
2012
inspired by the works of
DuckTales
TV Series story - 2 episodes, 1987 story "The Unsafe Safe" - 1 episode, 1989 story "Tralla La" - 1 episode, 1989 story "The Status Seeker" - 1 episode, 1987 story "The Golden Fleecing" - 1 episode, 1987 story "The Lemming With The Locket" - 1 episode, 1987 story "Land Beneath the Ground!" - 1 episode, 1987 teleplay - 1 episode, 1987 story "The Giant Robot Robbers" - 1 episode, 1987
$9 Million
