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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.
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Carl Barks. Writer: DuckTales. As the creator of 'Scrooge McDuck', Carl Barks did more than any other comic book artist to widen the popularity of Donald Duck, bringing in the process a vast array of memorable supporting characters into the Disney universe, among them Uncle Scrooge himself, Gladstone Gander, Gyro Gearloose (and his Little Helper), the Beagle Boys, and the Junior Woodchucks.
- Writer, Animation Department
- March 27, 1901
- Carl Barks
- August 25, 2000
- Disney
- The Good Duck Artist
- Third Marriage
- Later Life
- Final Days
In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his studio, Carl decided to apply. He was approved for a try-out which entailed a move to Los Angeles, California. Carl was one of two in his class of trainees who was hired. His starting salary was 20 dollars a week. He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a ye...
Unhappy at the emerging wartime working conditions at Disney plus bothered by ongoing sinus problems caused by the studio's air conditioning, Barks quit in 1942. Shortly before quitting, he moonlighted as a comic book artist, contributing half the artwork for a one-shot comic book (the other half of the art being done by story partner Jack Hannah) ...
As Barks blossomed creatively, his marriage to Clara deteriorated (this is the period referred to in Barks' famed quip that he could feel his creative juices flowing while the whiskey bottles hurled at him by a tipsy Clara flew by his head) and they were divorced in 1951. It was his second and last divorce. In this period Barks dabbled in fine art,...
Carl Barks retired in 1966 but was persuaded by editor Chase Craig to continue to script stories for Western. The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale ("The Dainty Daredevil") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest #5 (Nov. 1968). When bibliographer Michael Barrier asked Barks why he drew it, Barks' vague recollection...
Still living in a new home in Grants Pass, Oregon, which he and Garé had built next door to their original home, Barks died in 2000 at the age of 99, just a few months short of his 100th birthday, and seven years after Garé passed away. Although he was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia he was, according to caregiver Serene Hunickle, "funny up to...
Aug 29, 2000 · August 28, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Carl Barks was "the good duck artist." Barks, who died Friday at the age of 99, went to work for Walt Disney's Comics & Stories in the 1930s, and he labored in ...
- Lloyd Rose
Aug 26, 2000 · GRANTS PASS, Ore. —. Carl Barks, the Disney illustrator credited with giving Donald Duck his distinctive feisty and comical personality, died Friday at the age of 99. He had been receiving ...
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Feb 27, 2015 · The cover of Carl Barks’ Duck, Peter Schilling Jr.’s new study of midcentury cartooning legend Cark Barks, features the artist’s most famous subject in silhouette. This may be because a major media conglomerate owns Donald Duck, the subject in question, but the image still works. In Carl Barks’ Duck, Schilling argues that circumstances ...
