Among the most beloved Disney authors of all time he is remembered as a fundamental contribution of the well-known American production company. Let’s find out the story of Carl Barks.
Who was Carl Barks
Carl Barks (Merrill, March 27, 1901 – Grants Pass, August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist and illustrator.
It grows with the passion for drawing and in fact from a very young age he decides to make it his job. He begins by making cartoons for Judge magazine and later with College Human.
However, he does the greatest number of works for the magazine Calgary Eye-Opener humorous. Get in touch with great colleagues of the time such as Elzie Crisler Segar who plays the character of Popeye (arm wrestling). He concludes his collaboration with the magazine in 1935 when is a candidate as a designer in the large Disney center who once seen his sketches decides to hire him.
The first jobs for Disney
He then began his journey in the world of Disney Studios and received the short film as his first job “The magic mirror” where he creates a sequence starring Mickey Mouse. Not too many months later he starts writing his first scenes with Donald that lead him to reach the big screen.
Thanks to what he learned with the masters of cartoons he becomes a real screenwriter and with the transfer of his studies he begins his collaboration with Jack Hannah. However, he decides to make sure that the character remains faithful to the origins and thus leave his character unchanged.
The success of the Donald Duck family
Over the years he goes from making stories that concern only Donald Duck to creating a whole family unit. In fact, it makes grandchildren Here, Quo and Qua and later also Uncle Scrooge. He makes numerous of the most famous stories of the group of ducks including “Donald Duck and the pirate’s gold”.
In the 1940s he also began to appear with Donald Duck on the headline “Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories” with a series of stories that gradually began to settle in Duckburg and see only them as protagonists. Although they were shorter than Mickey Mouse’s, he still manages to develop a nice character.
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