Recalling Carl: Essays and images regarding the world's most prolific best-selling storyteller and master cartoonist.
He’s a publisher, author, editor, designer and marketing maven, but when he and Carl Barks met over a half century ago, Joseph Robert Cowles was a teenager working at Disneyland as a popcorn boy. A conversation with Disney cartoonist Roy Williams, the “Big Mooseketeer” on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show, led Cowles to locate and become friends with “The Good Artist” who created Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge and for more than two decades wrote and drew over 400 Disney comic books—comprising some 6,000 pages of story and art. This astounding volume of work has been translated into every major language and republished again and again worldwide, entertaining billions of readers and making Barks the most prolific published talent the world has ever known. Now, as Special Projects Coordinator for the international Carl Barks Fan Club, Cowles is on a quest to inspire the production of major motion pictures and television programs based on the crème de la crème of Barks’ work, which he contends has the power to become the most valuable motion picture entertainment franchise of all time.