Carl Barks
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Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 - August 25, 2000) was a famous and one of the most important American cartoonists ever. He's the inventor of Scrooge McDuck, the Beagle Boys, Gyro Gearloose and many other Walt Disney characters. He was often called the most important artist in Disney comics.
Carl Barks was born on March 27, 1901, near Merrill, Oregon, as part of a farming family. At age 10, he was for the first time interested in art. When he was 15, his mother died, and he began to help his father on the family's farm. In 1935, he took a contract with Disney and started as one of the studios in between artists. Some months later, he become a part of Ted Sears "Story Department" at the Disney studios, where he wrote more than two dozen Stories for short films with Donald Duck and other characters until 1942.
In this year he went to "Western Publishing". There he starts drawing comics with Donald Duck and later with other characters, most of them were created by himself. He did this job until the year 1966, when he retired.
In the early 1990s Carl Barks become a comic legend. In 1994, at age 93, he traveled for the first time in his long life to Europe and visit around a dozen countries. Some months before, his third wife, Margaret, called Garé, has passed away at age 75.
In 1999, Leukemia began to destroy his body. The Duck man died at age 99 at August 25, 2000, at his home in Grants Pass, Oregon.
