History Creator / CarlBarks

* BleachedUnderpants: Barks started his career in the 1920s and '30s at the ''Calgary Eye-Opener'', a racy men's cartoon magazine of the era. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21568_7-famous-artists-you-didnt-know-were-perverts-pt.-2_p2.html During his retirement, he would constantly draw or paint erotic pictures of women or men with Duck Faces.]]

* ComicBook/TheSecondRichestDuck (Uncle Scrooge #15, 1956).

* ComicBook/TheSecondRichestDuck

* AdaptationalVillainy: People who have read stories featuring John Rockerduck but never read the only Barks story where he appeared will be surprised to learn he was by no means portrayed as a villain in that story.

* EscapedAnimalRampage: One Carl Barks comic strip had Donald Duck walking around with a necklace that brings good luck. When he hears that a dangerous gorilla escaped he decides to turn the giant ape in, believing that he will be prevented by his lucky device. Of course, it doesn't work.

** In ''The Crazy Quiz Show'' in particular, the host of the quiz is portrayed in a slightly cruel light, giving insanely impossible quiz questions to professional prize-grabbers (like "What is MickeyMouse's social security number?"), and giving silly punishments and pranks for answering wrong or trying to coach other contestants.

If you've been interested in reading his stories, there's good news for you: [[http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/01/exclusive-fantagraphics-to-publish-the-complete-carl-barks/ Fantagraphics books has been in the process of republishing all of his old Donald Duck stories over a 30 volume series of books in the upcoming years, with two volumes a year!]]

* BleachedUnderpants: Before Barks started his Disney career. In the 1920's he began his career at a racy men's magazine called the "Calgary Eye-Opener" a racy men's cartoon magazine of the era. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21568_7-famous-artists-you-didnt-know-were-perverts-pt.-2_p2.html During his retirement, he would constantly draw or paint erotic pictures of women or men with Duck Faces.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: Barks' favorite way to introduce new characters into his comics: While the characters are unknown to the readers, the characters in-universe are usually already familiar with him. Of course course this isn't the case for every new character, there are exceptions like Flintheart Glomgold or Magica [=DeSpell=]. Characters that are introduced this way include: Gladstone Gander, Neighbor Jones, Scrooge [=McDuck=], Gyro Gearloose, John D. Rockerduck and the Beagle Boys.

Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was a Creator/{{Disney}} writer and artist who made comics set in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse from 1942 to 1966. He was known as ''the Good Duck Artist'' by the readers for much of this time due to a Disney company rule which forbade the comic authors' names from being featured in their magazines.

Barks is renowned for creating characters such as Scrooge [=McDuck=], Gladstone Gander, Gyro Gearloose, the Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, and many others, as well as setting in stone the base geography of the city of Duckburg. His stories brought in the treasure hunt plot to Duck comics and inspired a generation of people (such as Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/OsamuTezuka, Creator/DonRosa, Creator/RobertCrumb, Creator/ArtSpiegelman and the writers of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'') to replicate the thrill of adventure. Creator/WillEisner called him "the Creator/HansChristianAndersen of comic books." He is also responsible for expanding Donald Duck's personality beyond his usual one-note characterization in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts; reaching levels that were never rivaled in the animated appearances of the character.

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