Talk:Carl Barks

Cruddy writing
Why is there reference (unsourced) to his former wife Clara swinging whiskey bottles at him? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.218.229.154 (talk) 23:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It adds color and is accurate; it is mentioned in Michael Barrier's book. Dgabbard (talk) 04:18, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

First Disney story
How do you define "First Disney story"? Before Pirate's Gold he drew that Pluto Story; the first story he wrote for comics was the 2nd ten pager.

The first piece of comic Barks contributed to is (according to the best of our knowledge) a DD daily strip gag from 1938 for which he sold a gag idea. The second one is "Pluto Saves the ship" which he co-wrote with Jack Hannah and Nick George (1942). The third one is "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" for which he drew half of the art with Jack Hannah (1942). The fourth one is "The victory garden", a Donald Duck 10-pager which he drew entirely (he also heavily rewrote the script that was submitted to him) in 1943. The fifth one is "The Lucky Rabbit Foot", a DD ten-pager which is the first he entirely wrote and drew. There are probably a few more Daily strip gag ideas that Barks sold in the late 30s-beginning of the 40s, but we will probably never know which one. The specialists suggest that the strip of 7/30, 1940 is one of them. Please see the Inducks database for the full accurate information. Herve661

Can someone explain how Barks contributed to The Plastics Inventor in 1944, if he left the Studio in 1942? RickK 07:55 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

He left the Studio at 1943 while he had worked on the production of several shorts that weren't released yet. But the Plastics Inventor is not usualy mentioned as one of them. Perhaps he contributed to the plot? User: Dimadick

Mentioning the ancestry of the person who serves as the subject of an article is rather standar use in the Wikipedia. See for example the articles on Dickens, Disney and Emperor Norton I. It doesn't serve as a geneology but just mentions their family background for those interested. It doesn't mean that each of the mentioned persons gets his own article. Any other ideas of what to add to the article? User: Dimadick


 * I disagree with the Disney info, but at least his family has their own articles. The Dickens info is excessive, and the Norton info especially so.  I will delete the birth and death dates and the bolding.  If you want to create separate articles about the ancestors, then please give us info in this article, otherwise, what do they add? RickK 08:37 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I am going to mention their names and some of their decisions a the following paragraph and till the end of his school days so they might as well be listed at the beginning of his biography. Birth and death dates just contribute to an understanding of what generation they belong to. Wikipedia has several articles on American Generations. For example Carl himself is listed among the G.I. Generation. See those articles it. User: Dimadick

The successor
Would it be of any relevance to mention that Don Rosa is widely regarded as Barks' spiritual successor? In fact, Rosa idolizes Barks' style to the point that his confessed goal is to make their styles indistinguishable - and he usually succeeds. - 200.195.88.155
 * Could be, but Barks has had many successors. My own favourite is probably Daan Jippes. He maintains the same energy and movement in his comics as in the older Barks' stories. Personally, I think Rosa's style is quite stiff and lacking in emotion.

I met Rosa twice, and as he said, his style is very different from Barks, although he tried to follow Barks. There is a huge difference between the two, especially on personalities. And there are also many different successors, I agree that Jippes (with Fred Milton) is one of the closest. Herve661 19:14, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think every duckburgian artist can be praised as Bark's successor. Don Rosa itself can be regarded as successor since his story often referred to Carl Bark's stories. The same discussion also appear in Talk:Don Rosa. Kunderemp 23:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Info from Only A Poor Old Man
Hopefully there are some editors who watch this page. I don't know where to put this info. It should be merged into this article per Articles for deletion/Only A Poor Old Man. Thanks. --F a ng Aili 說嗎? 04:46, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Only A Poor Old Man is a Donald Duck story written by Carl Barks in March 1952.


 * Don't worry, look on fr.wiki at Category:Carl Barks' Story. Sebjarod 10:12, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Barks and Andersen
It was Will Eisner who called Barks the HC Andersen of comics - I read that in a book, but I can't find it on the internet. 96T 11:16, 26 August 2006 (UTC)


 * (in Norwegian, unfortunately). If you could find out what book, that's an adequate citation too. Sam Vimes | Address me 11:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * This is not a reliable source and it is not even available any more . I added an alternative source for the claim that Barks has been compared to Andersen. Needless to say that the claim that Eisner made this claim first has not been verified yet. --Omnipaedista (talk) 02:31, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

"Fantagraphics Books called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books.""  Well, in the reference that you show (reference number 2), Fantagraphics is CITING Will Eisner for calling Barks "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books."! Benadikt (talk) 09:09, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Censorship pre-80s
There were some Bark Stories in 50s and 60s which have been censored and redrawn such as "The Darkest Africa". Eric Shanower warned the reader in his recommendation. If someone know which stories were being redrawn, I think it would be interesting to put in wikipedia. I only knew one, "Darkest Africa", when the villain went to native village to hire some men. Kunderemp 23:41, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


 * It is a rather complicated situation. In some cases, Barks' work was censored by his publisher before publication (such as the 5 page sequence cut from "Back to the Klondike"). He also sometimes dropped pages to tighten and improve a story. Kim Weston's article "My Secret Life By Scrooge McDuck - Or, The Unpublished Carl Barks", published in Funnyworld no. 16 (1975) and distilled into Michael Barrier's Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book is the authority on this topic. Disney has also in contemporary times mandated some changes, although the redrawing you cite when "Darkest Africa" was published in the Carl Barks Library was actually because there was no good source material and they had to use inked tracings (albeit rather poor ones). Dgabbard (talk) 01:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * On the web, you may have a look here and here. Herve661 (talk) 07:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * A correcion: "Darkest Africa" had both censorship and problems with source material.Dgabbard (talk) 04:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

the oil paintings
I tweaked and improved the description of how Barks shifted from taking commissions to selling the paintings via auction. Even found a drawing dated Sept. 1974 where Barks confirms by then no more names were being taken. I also took out excess detail about the painting sold in Boston in 1975--we don't need to know who bought it, that it hasn't changed hands or its current value. Sounds like an ad not material that belongs in a biography of Barks. Dgabbard (talk) 18:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I have again removed excess detail about the 1975 sale, that the buyer became a friend and spoke at the funeral. Comes across as egregious egoboo that has no place in a biographical article.Dgabbard (talk) 04:24, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

DuckTales
Could someone please fill me in why there is absolutely NO mention of DuckTales in this article? Like is it really that irrelevant? Didn't he help create the show? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Infinitysend (talk • contribs) 03:44, 14 February 2010 (UTC)


 * He created Duckburg from the 1940s up to the 60s, and the makers of Ducktails chose to ignore 99% of what he had done when they were doing the series around 1990. --79.193.62.12 (talk) 06:05, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * The article on DuckTales mentions Barks. That seems adequate.Dgabbard (talk) 04:28, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Good Duck Artist
I've inserted two sentences (and a print source) into the second bulleted point under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks#The_Good_Duck_Artist before the last sentence. My idea here is to reinforce the significance of the adventures to Barks' corpus of work; hope it's not overly pedantic for an encyclopedia entry. Alas, I've got no access to the original hardback print of vol. 6 of the (black and white) Carl Barks Library to see if the Blum quote is the same in the original as it appears in the subsequent edit I've got, but 'Vacation Time' is beautifully colored where I have this cite from. If the insertion passes muster, I might later do a page for 'Vacation Time' such as other Barks tales below have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Onundtreefoot (talk • contribs) 18:35, 5 March 2012 (UTC) Indeed, I ought to have signed: Thanks for that nudge! Onundtreefoot (talk) 19:26, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I made it a separate paragarph and tweaked the wording.Dgabbard (talk) 04:41, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Top Importance?
There's a discussion on which comic-related articles should be listed as "Top Importance" on the importance scale, and I feel this article should not be included. If any user disagrees or wishes to contribute, please do so there. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:42, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

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Barks and Belief
I've removed a phrase that described Barks as "an atheist", as unsubstantiated.

Here's my blog on the subject

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.73.191 (talk) 02:00, 16 May 2022 (UTC)