Carl Barks

Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist. He worked for the Disney Studio and 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). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. Writer-artist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books."

In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

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