Barks was the descendant of Jacob Barks, who came to Missouri from North Carolina circa 1800.
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter.
There he remembered not having anybody to talk to, as his parents were busy and he had little in common with his brother. In 1908, William Barks (in an attempt to increase the family income) moved with his family to Midland, Oregon, some miles north of Merrill, to be closer to the new railway lines.
According to Barks, his attention was mostly drawn to the cowboys that frequented the market with their revolvers, strange nicknames for each other and sense of humor. By 1911, they had been successful enough to move to Santa Rosa, California.
The year was 1913, and Barks was already 12-years-old; but, due to the constant moving, he had not yet managed to complete grade school.
He resumed his education at this point and finally managed to graduate in 1916. 1916 served as a turning point in Barks's life for various reasons.
But as he later said, the lessons proved very useful in improving his style. By December 1918, he left his father's home to attempt to find a job in San Francisco, California.
In 1921 they married and had two daughters: Peggy Barks (1923–1963) Dorothy Barks (1924–2014) In 1923 he returned to his paternal farm in Merrill in an attempt to return to the life of a farmer, but that ended soon.
In 1921 they married and had two daughters: Peggy Barks (1923–1963) Dorothy Barks (1924–2014) In 1923 he returned to his paternal farm in Merrill in an attempt to return to the life of a farmer, but that ended soon.
He and Pearl were separated in 1929 and divorced in 1930.
He and Pearl were separated in 1929 and divorced in 1930.
He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934, in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen. Barks initially worked as an inbetweener.
After he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Calgary-Eye-Opener had its offices he met Clara Balken, who in 1938 became his second wife. ===Disney=== In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his studio, Barks decided to apply.
He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934, in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen. Barks initially worked as an inbetweener.
While an inbetweener, Barks submitted gag ideas for cartoon story lines being developed and showed such a knack for creating comical situations that by 1937 he was transferred to the story department.
His first story sale was the climax of Modern Inventions, for a sequence where a robot barber chair gives Donald Duck a haircut on his bottom. In 1937 when Donald Duck became the star of his own series of cartoons instead of co-starring with Mickey Mouse and Goofy as previously, a new unit of storymen and animators was created devoted solely to this series.
Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was (principally with partner Jack Hannah) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and (if approved by Walt) put into production.
Published by Panini Comics in Italy. ==Filmography== Films where Barks served as storyman or story director: Modern Inventions (May 29, 1937).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Donald's Ostrich (December 10, 1937). Self Control (February 11, 1938).
After he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Calgary-Eye-Opener had its offices he met Clara Balken, who in 1938 became his second wife. ===Disney=== In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his studio, Barks decided to apply.
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Donald's Ostrich (December 10, 1937). Self Control (February 11, 1938).
Barks served as the story director. Donald's Better Self (March 11, 1938).
Barks served as the story director. Donald's Nephews (April 15, 1938). Good Scouts (July 8, 1938).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Donald's Golf Game (November 4, 1938).
Barks served as the story director. Donald's Lucky Day (January 13, 1939).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. The Hockey Champ (April 28, 1939).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Donald's Cousin Gus (May 19, 1939).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Sea Scouts (June 30, 1939).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Donald's Penguin (August 11, 1939).
Barks served as the story director. The Autograph Hound (September 1, 1939). Mr.
In the 1940s these were one-shots in the Four Color series (issued 4–6 times a year) that starred Donald and his nephews.
Duck Steps Out (June 7, 1940).
Barks served as the story director. Put-Put Troubles (June 19, 1940). Bone Trouble (June 28, 1940). Donald's Vacation (August 9, 1940). Window Cleaners (September 20, 1940).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Fire Chief (December 13, 1940).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Timber (January 10, 1941).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Golden Eggs (March 7, 1941). Early to Bed (July 11, 1941).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Truant Officer Donald (August 1, 1941).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Old MacDonald Duck (September 12, 1941).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Chef Donald (December 5, 1941).
Duck Steps Out (1940), Timber (1941), The Vanishing Private (1942) and The Plastics Inventor (1944). ===The Good Duck Artist=== Unhappy at the emerging wartime working conditions at Disney, and bothered by ongoing sinus problems caused by the studio's air conditioning, Barks quit in 1942.
This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Dell Comics Four Color Comics #9.
According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's "Vacation Time," which he describes as "a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ...
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. The Village Smithy (January 16, 1942). Donald's Snow Fight (April 10, 1942).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Donald Gets Drafted (May 1, 1942).
Barks served as the story director. The Army Mascot (May 22, 1942). The Vanishing Private (September 25, 1942).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Sky Trooper (November 6, 1942). Bellboy Donald (December 18, 1942).
This set the pattern for Barks' career in that (with rare exceptions) he provided art (pencil, inking, solid blacks and lettering) and scripting for his stories. The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. The Old Army Game (November 5, 1943).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Home Defense (November 26, 1943).
Barks also drew many of the storyboards for the film. Trombone Trouble (February 18, 1944).
New Treasure Island, one of Tezuka's first works, was partly influenced by "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold". A 1949 Donald Duck ten-pager features Donald raising a yacht from the ocean floor by filling it with ping pong balls.
Starting in the early 1950s (and through his retirement) Barks' longer stories were almost exclusively published in Uncle Scrooge's own quarterly title. Barks' artistic growth during his first decade in comics saw a transformation from rather rudimentary storytelling derived from his years as an animation artist and storyman into a virtuoso creator of complex narratives, notably in his longer adventure tales.
According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's "Vacation Time," which he describes as "a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ...
However, many readers recognized Barks' work and drawing style and began to call him the Good Duck Artist, a label that stuck even after his true identity was discovered by fans in the late 1950s.
They were divorced in 1951, his second and last divorce.
It is one of his few stories to feature humans interacting with funny animal characters (another is Dangerous Disguise, Four Color #308, 1951).
It was at one of these in 1952 he became acquainted with fellow exhibitor Margaret Wynnfred Williams (1917 – March 10, 1993), nicknamed Garé.
They married in 1954 and the union lasted until her death. ===No longer anonymous=== People who worked for Disney (and its comic book licensees) generally did so in relative anonymity; stories would only carry Walt Disney's name and (sometimes) a short identification number.
He was interred in Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Grants Pass, beside Garé's grave. ==Influence== Barks' Donald Duck stories were rated #7 on The Comics Journal list of 100 top comics; his Uncle Scrooge stories were rated #20. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have acknowledged that the rolling-boulder booby trap in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark was inspired by the 1954 Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge adventure "The Seven Cities of Cibola" (Uncle Scrooge #7).
The latter included environmental themes that Barks first explored in 1957 ["Land of the Pygmy Indians", Uncle Scrooge #18].
Her nickname appears as a store name in the story "Christmas in Duckburg", featured on page 1 of Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #9, published in 1958.
Prior to 1960 Barks' identity remained a mystery to his readers.
After Barks received a 1960 visit from the Spicer brothers and Ron Leonard, he was no longer anonymous, as word of his identity spread through the emerging network of comic book fandom fanzines and conventions. ===Later life=== Carl Barks retired in 1966, but was persuaded by editor Chase Craig to continue to script stories for Western.
In December 1965 Karl Krøyer, a Dane, lifted the sunken freight vessel Al Kuwait in the Kuwait Harbor by filling the hull with 27 million tiny inflatable balls of polystyrene. Although the suggestion is often made, Krøyer denies having been inspired by this Barks story.
After Barks received a 1960 visit from the Spicer brothers and Ron Leonard, he was no longer anonymous, as word of his identity spread through the emerging network of comic book fandom fanzines and conventions. ===Later life=== Carl Barks retired in 1966, but was persuaded by editor Chase Craig to continue to script stories for Western.
From 1970 to 1974, Barks was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book (issues 6 through 25).
In July 1971 Barks was granted a royalty-free license by Disney.
From 1970 to 1974, Barks was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book (issues 6 through 25).
By September 1974 Barks had discontinued taking commissions. At Boston's NewCon convention, in October 1975, the first Carl Barks oil painting auctioned at a comic book convention ("She Was Spangled and Flashy") sold for $2,500.
By September 1974 Barks had discontinued taking commissions. At Boston's NewCon convention, in October 1975, the first Carl Barks oil painting auctioned at a comic book convention ("She Was Spangled and Flashy") sold for $2,500.
Subsequent offerings saw an escalation in the prices realized. In 1976, Barks and Garé went to Boston for the NewCon show, their first comic convention appearance.
It was the first book of its kind ever reviewed in Time Magazine and subsequently in Newsweek, and the first book review in Time Magazine with large color illustrations. In 1977 and 1982, Barks attended the San Diego Comic-Con.
Seven years after Gladstone's founding, the Carl Barks Library was revived as the Carl Barks Library in Color, as full-color, high-quality squarebound comic albums (including the first-ever Carl Barks trading cards). From 1993 to 1998, Barks' career was managed by the "Carl Barks Studio" (Bill Grandey and Kathy Morby—they had sold Barks original art since 1979).
These were eventually collected in the limited-edition book Animal Quackers. As the result of heroic efforts by Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz and screenwriter Edward Summer, Disney relented and, in 1981, allowed Barks to do a now seminal oil painting called "Wanderers of Wonderlands" for a breakthrough limited edition book entitled Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times.
As with his appearance in Boston, the response to his presence was overwhelming, with long lines of fans waiting to meet Barks and get his autograph. In 1981, Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran, two long-time Disney comics fans, decided to combine forces to bring greater recognition to the works of Carl Barks.
Berkeley (Ca.): Celestial Arts, 1981 (first trade edition 1987). Helnwein, Gottfried (ed.): 'Wer ist Carl Barks' (Who is Carl Barks?), texts by Roy Disney, Gottfried Helnwein, Carsten Laqua, Andreas Platthaus und Ulrich Schröder.
It was the first book of its kind ever reviewed in Time Magazine and subsequently in Newsweek, and the first book review in Time Magazine with large color illustrations. In 1977 and 1982, Barks attended the San Diego Comic-Con.
Lucas wrote the foreword to the 1982 Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times.
Not long after, the company began producing fine art lithographs of many of these paintings, in strictly limited editions, all signed by Barks, who eventually produced many original works for the series. In 1983, Barks relocated one last time to Grants Pass, Oregon, near where he grew up, partly at the urging of friend and Broom Hilda artist Russell Myers, who lived in the area.
In this period Barks made only one public appearance, at a comic book shop near Grants Pass. In 1983, Another Rainbow took up the daunting task of collecting the entire Disney comic book oeuvre of Barks—over 500 stories in all—in the ten-set, thirty-volume Carl Barks Library.
This monumental project was finally completed in mid-1990. In 1985, a new division was founded, Gladstone Publishing, which took up the then-dormant Disney comic book license.
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.
Berkeley (Ca.): Celestial Arts, 1981 (first trade edition 1987). Helnwein, Gottfried (ed.): 'Wer ist Carl Barks' (Who is Carl Barks?), texts by Roy Disney, Gottfried Helnwein, Carsten Laqua, Andreas Platthaus und Ulrich Schröder.
It was at one of these in 1952 he became acquainted with fellow exhibitor Margaret Wynnfred Williams (1917 – March 10, 1993), nicknamed Garé.
Seven years after Gladstone's founding, the Carl Barks Library was revived as the Carl Barks Library in Color, as full-color, high-quality squarebound comic albums (including the first-ever Carl Barks trading cards). From 1993 to 1998, Barks' career was managed by the "Carl Barks Studio" (Bill Grandey and Kathy Morby—they had sold Barks original art since 1979).
Barks appeared at the first of many Disneyana conventions in 1993.
Since 1995, more than 500,000 visitors have attended the shows in Europe. Reichelt also translated Michael Barrier's biography of Barks into German and published it in 1994. ===Final days and death=== Barks spent his final years in a new home in Grants Pass, Oregon, which he and Garé, who died in 1993, had built next door to their original home.
This involved numerous art projects and activities, including a tour of 11 European countries in 1994, Iceland being the first foreign country he ever visited.
Silk screen prints of paintings along with high-end art objects (such as original water colors, bronze figurines and ceramic tiles) were produced based on designs by Barks. During the summer of 1994 and until his death, Barks and his studio personally assigned Peter Reichelt, a museum exhibition producer from Mannheim, Germany, as his agent for Europe.
Gerry Tank and Jim Mitchell were to assist Barks in his final years. During his Carl Barks Studio years, Barks created two more stories: the script for the final Uncle Scrooge story "Horsing Around with History", which was first published in Denmark in 1994 with Bill Van Horn art.
Between 1994 and 1998 the retrospective was shown in ten European museums and seen by more than 400,000 visitors. At the same time in spring 1994, Reichelt and Ina Brockmann designed a special museum exhibition tour about Barks' life and work.
Since 1995, more than 500,000 visitors have attended the shows in Europe. Reichelt also translated Michael Barrier's biography of Barks into German and published it in 1994. ===Final days and death=== Barks spent his final years in a new home in Grants Pass, Oregon, which he and Garé, who died in 1993, had built next door to their original home.
Since 1995, more than 500,000 visitors have attended the shows in Europe. Reichelt also translated Michael Barrier's biography of Barks into German and published it in 1994. ===Final days and death=== Barks spent his final years in a new home in Grants Pass, Oregon, which he and Garé, who died in 1993, had built next door to their original home.
A facsimile of one of the racy magazines he did cartoons for in this period, Coo Coo #1, was published by Hamilton Comics in 1997. Meanwhile, he had his first divorce.
In 1997, tensions between Barks and the Studio eventually resulted in a lawsuit that was settled with an agreement that included the disbanding of the Studio.
The outlines for Barks' final Donald Duck story "Somewhere in Nowhere", were first published in 1997, in Italy, with art by Pat Block. Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein curated and organized the first solo museum-exhibition of Barks.
Seven years after Gladstone's founding, the Carl Barks Library was revived as the Carl Barks Library in Color, as full-color, high-quality squarebound comic albums (including the first-ever Carl Barks trading cards). From 1993 to 1998, Barks' career was managed by the "Carl Barks Studio" (Bill Grandey and Kathy Morby—they had sold Barks original art since 1979).
Between 1994 and 1998 the retrospective was shown in ten European museums and seen by more than 400,000 visitors. At the same time in spring 1994, Reichelt and Ina Brockmann designed a special museum exhibition tour about Barks' life and work.
In July 1999, he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a form of cancer arising from the white blood cells in the bone marrow, for which he received oral chemotherapy.
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter.
However, as the disease progressed, causing him great discomfort, the ailing Barks decided to stop receiving treatment in June 2000.
You're beyond the clutches of all those who would crush you. On August 25, 2000, shortly after midnight, Carl Barks died quietly in his sleep at the age of 99.
Edited by Barks expert Geoffrey Blum. The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library 2011–?, hardback volumes with separate Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck volumes from Fantagraphics Books. Uack! and Uack! presenta April 2014-ongoing, 26-volume edition with the collected stories written by Barks, including a few drawn by other artists, and previously unpublished stories, enriched with sketches and photographs.
Edited by Barks expert Geoffrey Blum. The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library 2011–?, hardback volumes with separate Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck volumes from Fantagraphics Books. Uack! and Uack! presenta April 2014-ongoing, 26-volume edition with the collected stories written by Barks, including a few drawn by other artists, and previously unpublished stories, enriched with sketches and photographs.
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