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Addio Carl Barks
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Donald Duck Artist Dies
08/25/00
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cartoonist Carl Barks, who drew Donald Duck comic
books for three decades, turning the quacking, cranky waterfowl into an
unlikely, universally loved ''Everyman,'' died on Friday at age 99 at his
home in southern Oregon, the Walt Disney Co. said.
Associates of Barks in Grants Pass, Ore., where he lived for many years and
maintained a studio, said he died of leukemia.
As an artist, Barks was expert at creating ``poultry in motion'' and
invented the character ``Scrooge McDuck,'' who went from the pages of the
Walt Disney Comics & Stories to becoming a full-fledged film cartoon
character on his own -- the world's funniest miser.
Barks, whose work went unnoticed for years with many thinking that Walt
Disney himself drew Donald Duck comics, developed a world-wide following for
his vividly colored works.
After he retired from drawing comic books in 1966, he became a painter and
some of his portraits of Disney characters fetched more than $200,000.
Born and raised on a ranch in Merrill, Ore., Barks liked to recall that he
grew up with ``well-armed cowboys'' and people who had fought in Indian
wars.
In the early 1930s, Barks began as an ``in-betweener'' at the Disney
studios, drawing frames between action in animated cartoons.
He then transferred to the story department and helped create the gags and
stories of early Donald Duck cartoons -- including having Donald turned
upside down and shaved by robot barbers in the short ``Modern Inventions''
while he squawked to no avail. Donald was already a cartoon character when
Barks went to work on the animated shorts. Western Publishing, which
produced Walt Disney comic books and there he gave the famous duck a
career-prolonging personality transplant.
``I get credit for practically raising Donald Duck,'' Barks told the
Baltimore Sun in a 1996 interview.
``He was just a noisy, quarrelsome brat in the movies. When I started doing
the comics in 1943, I couldn't do enough stories with him like that. So I
changed Donald's character. I put him in a role where he had to act
intelligently and speak well enough to put his thoughts across. He's a lot
like a lot of us, though, wanting to speak his mind.''
He liked to say also that he had turned Donald into an ''Everyman,''
although one that quacks.
Barks also created Scrooge McDuck, with his Gold Bin stuffed with gold and
jewels. ``He's a stingy old millionaire miser but people love him because
they see that he has as many troubles as people who don't have money,''
Barks told the Sun.
Barks created ``Ducksburg,'' the town where Donald and his crew lived and he
used photographs from the National Geographic to inspire the backgrounds for
the stories he drew when Donald and his nephews -- Huey, Dewey and Louie --
would go on an adventure.
In the more than two decades that he drew the monthly 10-page Donald Duck
segment for Walt Disney Comics & Stories, he developed such other characters
as Donald's super-lucky cousin Gladstone Gander and the addled inventor Gyro
Gearloose.
Paid only about $45 a page for his comic book art, Barks did not start to
make money until his painting career took off.
Disney had given him permission to paint its characters when he retired in
1966, but withdrew its permission in 1976 when fans began to sell photos of
his work for $500 apiece.
For the next five years, he painted scenes of American history using duck
characters while the price of his Donald Duck portraits soared.
Finally Disney relented and renewed permission for him to paint its
characters and his prices reached into the six figures.

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Sono d'accordo.
Però, come dire, non è che aveva 20 anni eh....
Cla.


certa gente dovrebbe essere immortale.
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Cazzo.
Mi era sfuggita la notizia.
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Una prece.
Addio, grande vecchio.
Arrivederci.
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