Director

Carl Barks

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 44

TMDB ID: 34479

IMDb ID: nm0055119

Known for: Writing

Born: March 27, 1901

Died: August 25, 2000

Age: 99

Place of birth: Merrill, Oregon, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1937 - 2014

Years active: 78

Average TMDB rating: 6.39

Wikidata: Q11941

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Biography

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." -Wikipedia Entry