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Carl Barks

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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.


— Carl Barks


#cynicism #did #get #had #hell

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.


— Carl Barks


#anyplace #boy #boy scout #could #eleven

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.


— Carl Barks


#been #beings #caricature #describes #ducks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.


— Carl Barks


#characters #difference #face #going #life






About Carl Barks

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Did you know about Carl Barks?

Cartoonist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books. Later he would say it was natural for him to satirize the secret yearnings and desires the pompous style and the disappointments of his characters. Barks also reported that this was another thing he was familiar with.

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. Carl Barks (March 27 1901 – August 25 2000) was an American cartoonist best known for his comics about Donald Duck and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck.

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