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Birth
1901 (Merrill, Oregon)
Death
2000 (Grants Pass, Oregon)
Lived/Active
California
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Carl Barks established his reputation as a comic book artist, and the
work that ultimately won him the most distinction was done anonymously
from 1942 to 1966 when he drew and wrote the first original Donald Duck
comic book stories. Along the way, he created such characters as
Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander, the Beagle Boys, and Uncle Scrooge.
Barks
was born in Oregon, and "by the time I was sixteen, I had become pretty
well assured that I wanted to be an artist or a cartoo (showing 500 of 4934 characters). |
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