Artnet news: Carl Barks - Uncle Scrooge "McDuck of Duckburg" Limited Edition Bronze Statue #50/50 (Walt Disney, 1997) , 1997
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Carl Barks
Carl Barks 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 Boo…
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culture · American cartoonist (1901–2000) · writer · painter · farmer · journalist · story artist · illustrator · comics artist · comics writer · animator · cartoonist · also Carl Barks, The Duck Man, The Good Duck Artist, Barks
Born 27 March 1901 · Died 25 August 2000 · Q11941
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2024· 1 entry
2021· 2 entries
Artnet news: Carl Barks and Peter Ledger Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times Signed Production Art Page (Celestial Arts, 1
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bleedingcool: Carl Barks' Santa's Christmas Mail Painting From 1979 Goes To Auction
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2020· 1 entry
bleedingcool: Carl Barks Original Artwork, Up for Auction at Heritage
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Oregon Cartoon Institute produced a video about the influence of Carl Barks and Basil Wolverton on Robert Crumb
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2007· 1 entry
Cartoon Brew: Carl Barks estate auction
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2005· 1 entry
Moviefone: The Art and Animation of Carl Barks (2005)
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2000· 3 entries
Died 2000-08-25.
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Shortly after midnight, Carl Barks died quietly in his sleep at the age of 99
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Is dedicated to the memory of Carl Barks
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1997· 1 entry
Tensions between Barks and the Studio eventually resulted in a lawsuit that was settled with an agreement that included the disbanding of the Studio
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1994· 1 entry
Iceland being the first foreign country he ever visited
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1993· 1 entry
Had built next door to their original home
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Disney Legends (1991).
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Jack Kirby Hall of Fame (1987).
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Inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1987
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Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
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1985· 1 entry
A new division was founded, Gladstone Publishing, which took up the then-dormant Disney comic book license
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1983· 3 entries
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
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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
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The C-type asteroid 2730 Barks was named after him
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1981· 2 entries
Allowed Barks to produce an oil painting called Wanderers of Wonderlands for a limited edition book entitled Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times
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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
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (1977).
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And 1982, Barks attended San Diego Comic-Con
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1976· 1 entry
Barks and Garé went to Boston for the NewCon show, their first comic convention appearance
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1970· 1 entry
The Academy of Comic Book Arts Hall of Fame Award in 1973
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1966· 1 entry
But was persuaded by editor Chase Craig to continue to script stories for Western
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1957· 1 entry
["Land of the Pygmy Indians", Uncle Scrooge #18]
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1952· 1 entry
Became acquainted with fellow exhibitor Margaret Wynnfred Williams (1917 – March 10, 1993), nicknamed Garé
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1937· 1 entry
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
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1935· 1 entry
More than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934, in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen
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1923· 1 entry
Returned to his paternal farm in Merrill in an attempt to return to the life of a farmer, but that ended soon
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1908· 1 entry
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
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-03-27.
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