The deluxe edition of the book Mickey Mouse in Color included a small record containing an audio interview with Gottfredson and Disney Donald Duck-comic book artist Carl Barks.

Between 1978 and 1983 Gottfredson did a total of 24 paintings commissioned by collector Malcolm Willits, inspired by the success of the paintings of the Disney ducks done by Carl Barks.

Reprints of classic Donald Duck stories by Carl Barks and Mickey Mouse stories by Floyd Gottfredson were the foundation of their output.

During the first run Gladstone issued 28 albums and seven giant albums consisting mostly of reprints of stories by Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson.

Gemstone's flagship publications were comic books featuring Disney characters ; particularly the Donald Duck / Uncle Scrooge comics of such Duck artists as Carl Barks and Don Rosa, and the Mickey Mouse comics of Floyd Gottfredson, César Ferioli, and Romano Scarpa, among others.

After the 1960s, American artists of Disney comics, such as Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson did not produce as many stories as in the past.

In a similar vein, to explore new markets, in the mid-1970s it produced a four-volume series, with somewhat better production values and printing aimed at the emerging collector market, containing classic stories of the Disney characters by Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson ( Best of Walt Disney's Comics ).

Two villains are added that were not in Barks ' story.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his Studio, Barks decided to apply.

Unhappy at the emerging wartime working conditions at Disney plus bothered by ongoing sinus problems caused by the studio's air conditioning, Barks quit in 1942.

This actually was not his first work in comics, as earlier the same year Barks along with Hannah and fellow storyman Nick George scripted Pluto Saves the Ship, which was among the first original Disney comic book stories published in the United States.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

Carl Barks retired in 1966, ironically the same year Walt Disney died, but was persuaded by editor Chase Craig to script stories for Western.

The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).

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Carl Barks and Rosa are some of the few artists who have their name written on the covers of Disney magazines when their stories are published.

Gyro Gearloose is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic chicken created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company.

In 1971 Carl Barks drew a model sheet of the nephews, with some of the drawings showing them in their Junior Woodchuck uniforms, for the Disney studio's publications department.

* List of Disney comics by Carl Barks

The company had its origins as a subsidiary of " Another Rainbow ", a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran to publish the Carl Barks Library and produce limited edition lithographs of Carl Barks oil paintings of the Disney ducks.

In 1990 Gladstone was licensed to publish a series of albums reprinting nearly all the Disney duck stories of Carl Barks.

Prior shows would contain elements of parody in certain episodes, but would otherwise be straight-faced adventure concepts, this in the tradition of Carl Barks ' work in the Disney comics.

Even the DuckTales characters it reused had no counterpart in early Disney shorts or even the Carl Barks comics.

Merrill was the birthplace and boyhood home of Carl Barks, the Disney comics artist who created Scrooge McDuck, among others.

* List of Disney comics by Carl Barks

The story's legacy, coupled with Barks ' own love for it, made it launch the first The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library volume.

* List of Disney comics by Carl Barks

He was influenced by Otto Messmer's Felix the Cat, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Frederick Burr Opper's Happy Hooligan, Rudolph Dirks's the Katzenjammer Kids, and Barks and Gottfredson's Disney adaptations.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

The latter included environmental themes that Barks first explored in 1957 of the Pygmy Indians ", Uncle Scrooge # 18.

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

The castle was first featured in the Carl Barks story The Old Castle's Secret in Donald Duck Four Color # 189.

Duckburg was first mentioned in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 49 in 1944, and was created by Carl Barks.

Calisota is a fictional U. S. state, created by Carl Barks in his story " The Gilded Man " ( Four Color # 422 ).

The Number One Dime first appeared in the story titled " The Round Money Bin ", created by Carl Barks and first published in Uncle Scrooge # 3 ( September, 1953 ).

The Junior Woodchucks were created by Carl Barks in 1951, in the story " Operation St. Bernhard " ( Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 125 ).

The Beagle Boys were originally created by Carl Barks, and made their first appearance in the 10-page story The Terror of the Beagle Boys ( WDC # 134 ) that was first published in November 1951.

He first appeared as a statue in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 138 in the 1952 story " Statuesque Spendthrifts " by Carl Barks.

In " Race to the South Seas " ( March of Comics # 41, 1949 ), a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, a variant of Shyster appeared as Scrooge McDuck's lawyer, but his appearance differed from that in the Mickey Mouse strip and he was not depicted as a villain in that story.

The Junior Woodchucks were created by Carl Barks in 1951, in the story " Operation St. Bernhard " ( Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 125 ).

The Chickadees first appeared in " The Chickadee Challenge ," a Carl Barks Donald Duck story in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 161 ( 1954 ).

Beck's painting inspired by Carl Barks ' unused cover sketch for the story " The Mines of King Solomon " ( Uncle Scrooge # 19, Sept .- Nov. 1957 ) was used as the cover when the story was reprinted in Gladstone Comic Album # 1 ( 1987 ).

In 1994 he did the art for Carl Barks ' final script, Horsing around with History which was released in Uncle Scrooge Adventures # 33.

It was also later printed in the Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge Adventures in Color # 56.

A Christmas for Shacktown is a Donald Duck / Uncle Scrooge story written and drawn by Carl Barks and first published in the comic book Donald Duck, # 367 in January, 1952.

This story was reprinted in The Carl Barks Library of Dell Comics Donald Duck # 286 ( 1994 ) and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 646 ( 2004 ).

The most popular issues featured the Donald Duck 10-pagers written and drawn by Carl Barks who began the run with issue # 31 ( April 1943 ) and ended with original stories in issue # 312 ( September 1966 ) but have been continually reprinted up to the present.

* Donald Duck in Knights of the Flying Sleds by Carl Barks ( Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 223 )