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 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon to William Barks and his wife Arminta Johnson.

Jacob Barks ' son Isaac was the father of the David Barks noted above.

According to Barks ' description of his childhood, he was a rather lonely child.

The nearest neighbor lived half a mile ( 800 m ) away, but he was more an acquaintance to Barks ' parents than a friend.

The closest school was about two miles ( 3 km ) away and Barks had to walk that distance every day.

According to Barks, his attention was mostly drawn to the cowboys that frequented the market with their revolvers, strange nicknames for each other and sense of humor.

The year was 1913, and Barks was already 12 years old ; but, due to the constant moving, he had not yet managed to complete grade school.

Barks later declared that he was sure that if not for a little humor in their troubled lives, they would certainly go insane.

It was an attitude towards life that Barks would adopt.

Donald's drifting from job to job was reportedly inspired by Barks ' own experiences.

Barks also reported that this was another thing he was familiar with.

Scrooge's main difference to Donald, according to Barks, was that he too had faced the same difficulties in his past but through intelligence, determination and hard work, he was able to overcome them.

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

While an inbetweener, Barks submitted gag ideas for cartoon story lines being developed and showed such a knack for creating comical situations that by 1937 he was transferred to the story department.

Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was ( principally with partner Jack Hannah ) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and ( if approved by Walt ) put into production.

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.

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.

In his later years, Kirby, who has been called " the William Blake of comics ", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Other notable artists from Whitehorse are the actors Tahmoh Penikett of Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse ; Amy Sloan who has done many television shows ,( Molly Lang ) Dancer, Singer, Northern Icon, the storyteller Ivan Coyote, punk rock bassist Jonas Smith of JJS3, and the creator of Scrooge McDuck occasional resident Carl Barks.

It was, in the fictional universe of Barks and Rosa, first built by Sir Francis Drake, who named it " Fort Drakeborough ".

Created by Carl Barks, they are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob Scrooge McDuck.

The Blackheart character originates from two characters created by Carl Barks: Blackheart Beagle, a riverboat pirate from The Fantastic River Race and Grandpa Beagle, who appeared in The Money Well.

He was originally supposed to be Gladstone Gander's father, Daphne Duck's husband and Gus's uncle, but Carl Barks later changed his mind about that matter, making Goosetave Gander ( who was originally Gladstone's adoptive father after Luke and Daphne " overate at a free-lunch picnic ") Gladstone's biological father and Daphne's husband.

Rockerduck was created by Carl Barks, who used him in one story: Boat Buster, first published in December, 1961.

This is often ignored in other stories to be able to have the rivals meet on a daily basis as in the case of Scrooge's other rival, Flintheart Glomgold ( who in the Barks stories lives in South Africa ) with John primarily managing his activities from a large business building he owns in Duckburg, and the three characters sitting at the same table in the Billionaires ' Club of the city.

Crumb has cited Carl Barks, who illustrated Disney's " Donald Duck " comic books and John Stanley ( Little Lulu ) as formative influences on his narrative approach, as well as Harvey Kurtzman.

With a brand new set and brand new direction, it starred Neil Morrissey and Brian Conley who will share the role of Fagin, with Samantha Barks as Nancy for the first six months ( Samantha came third in reality TV show I'd Do Anything, which was won by Jodie Prenger ).

Barks, who was to play Nancy for the first six months, played the role through March 2012, to begin filming for the film version of Les Misérables, and Cat Simmons was cast as Barks ' replacement.

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

) Barks himself was a pacifist who was against America's involvement in the war.

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.

The game was developed in 2000 by Ubisoft Montreal in a collaboration with Disney Interactive as a homage to Carl Barks, who died the same year.

" Carl Barks described Raymond as a man " who could combine craftsmanship with emotions and all the gimmicks that went into a good adventure strip.

His successor was Herbert B. Barks, Sr., who would remained as headmaster for the next thirty-five years.

* Rocky, the Cat who Barks, published 2002

Mooseface was created for Barks by Western Publishing colleague Gil Turner, who wrote and drew the Barney stories for several years after Barks ' run ended.

Barks came out of retirement to provide a script for this story and he chose William Van Horn to write this story for him.

After Barks received a 1960 visit from the Spicer brothers and Ron Leonard, he was no longer anonymous, as his name soon became known to his readers.

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 ).

This prompted Barks to contact George Sherman at Disney's Publications Department to request permission to produce and sell oil paintings of scenes from his stories.

In a later interview, Barks identified a similar figure from the comic strips of Charles Addams as another source of inspiration for Magica, namely Morticia Addams of The Addams Family.

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.

More recently Daan Jippes has been commissioned by Egmont to redraw these stories emulating Barks ' style and drawing inspiration from the sketches of Barks ' storyboard-like scripts.

The Micro Ducks from Outer Space ( Barks )

Carl Barks originally received the idea from someone else but he changed the script and made it his own.

Arne Anka is a Swedish comic strip drawn by Charlie Christensen under the pseudonym Alexander Barks from 1983 to 1995.

Pluto Saves the Ship is a comic book story scripted by writers Carl Barks, Jack Hannah and Nick George from a plot devised possibly by a publisher, and drawn by an unidentified illustrator.

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

* Donald Duck in Rocket Wing Saves the Day by Carl Barks ( Reprinted from Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 139 )

Smith published 55 issues of Bone between 1991 and 2004, blending influences from artists and writers such as Walt Kelly, Carl Barks, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

* Samantha Barks, singer and actress from the Isle of Man