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Although we all knew the condition of Carl Barks it's not easy to accept his
passing .
I believe the residents of the paradise are greeting and welcome him now
because he will make them happy as he made the "kids" around the world,and
in my opinion he will continue to.
Have a peaceful last voyage Master and maybe your boatman Charon will smile
a little.

GEORGIOS
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I called my local news stations and told them about
Mr. Carl Barks legacy. 3 out of 4 of them at least
sounded interested. One of them even pulled the
information up on her computer as we spoke. I also
called the newspaper and told them to pay attention to
the wire. There's still time!

This is a way you can help people know about Mr.
Barks' accomplishments. Maybe they'll even ask you to
comment or show off some of his work. Step up to the
plate and take your best shot. Thanks and God bless,

F.A. Elliott.

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The 'one' who has a finger on 'it'... scratches against the mahogany lining of a coffin crying, "I am Jonah! I am Jonah! Spit me back out so I may see and feel the light of day again." And, the levithan does not heed for it knows every great epic must come to an 'end.'
A tasty morsel known as... "understanding." (F.A. Elliott)

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Fernando Ventura wrote:

> Rebecca wrotte:
>
> "Quack Pack" came on, and tried to present a teenie-bopper version of Huey,
> Dewey and Louie, I was SO mad!!!

Actually this is not the first time that H, D & L have been portrayed as
teenagers by Disney animators. Keep it an eye out for the classic Donald short
"Lucky Number" from 1951, where you'll see the nephews drive around and tinker
on their hotrod.

Man Who Gave 'Donald Duck' Charm And Character Dies

By Arthur Spiegelman

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.

By the early 1940s, Barks had left Disney and gone to
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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My condolances to all those who knew, loved, or respected Carl Barks.
Every life ends at one point, and I think his was privileged: long and
leaving the world a wonderful inheritance. His influence doesn't die.

Irene P.
Editor Speedskating World

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"In the middle of a pleasant dream"
(Carl's answer on the question "How do you like to die?" from a
newspaper questionnaire 1994, printed in M. Barrier: Carl
Barks. Die Biographie. Mannheim (Germany) 1994)

I hope this came true.

Thanks.

You'd think I'd have been prepared for this. The man was 99 years old, and
word went out weeks ago that his health was failing. So you'd think...

I'm glad he lived. I'm glad he created the stories he did, and I'm glad he
got such satisfaction from having created them.

I'm glad he lived to see his many fans learn his name, and to hear how much
he and his work meant to us. I'm glad he enjoyed a long, healthy retirement,
full of the honor and acclaim that a man of his accomplishments deserves.
I'm glad he had a chance to see his fame spread all over the world, and his
name embedded in text written in dozens of different languages -- in
everything from children's comic books to scholarly treatises.

I'm glad he could see the children and grandchildren of his original fans
grow up loving his work

I'm glad he lived to see the shadow that hovered around him during his last
few years lift. I'm glad he had a chance for a quiet, friendly chat with Don
Rosa a couple of years back.

Glad. That's what I am -- glad of all those things. I keep telling myself.

Quack, Don

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Here is what was posted on the ABC news web site about
Carl Barks. (ABC is owned by Disney).

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) _ Carl Barks, the Disney illustrator credited
with giving Donald Duck his distinctive feisty and comical personality,
died
Friday at the age of 99. He had been receiving chemotherapy for leukemia,
but "was funny up to the end," said his caregiver, Serene Hunicke. Barks
drew Donald Duck for Walt Disney Studios from 1935 until 1942, and
continued afterward as the creative genius behind the Donald Duck universe.
Although other animators had a hand in the duck"s activities, Barks
polished
up Donald, rounding him out and shortening his beak, and gave him a
personality that was more jolly, though still spiked with that trademark
temper.
Barks" early writing credits included the 1937 Donald Duck short, "Modern
Inventions," in which Donald runs into trouble at an exhibit of
labor-saving
devices, including a robot butler. In 1942, he turned from cartoons to
illustrating comic strips and books. He gave Donald a hometown _ Duckburg _
populated by such characters as Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Gladstone Gander,
the Beagle Boys and Gyro Gearloose, and he is credited with giving Huey,
Dewey and Louie _ Donald"s nephews _ their distinctive personalities. Barks
got his start drawing one-panel "gag strips" for magazines when he was in
his
20s and 30s, but the job lost its allure. "I was thinking then that I"d like
to do
comics with whole stories," Barks recalled in a 1994 interview. "You know,
like Prince Valiant; stuff with continuity, not single, one-shot gags all
the time."
In 1935, he saw an ad for cartoonists to work for Walt Disney Studios in
Hollywood. Leaving a steady paycheck in Minnesota, he packed his bag and
decided to take a stab at animation. He quickly advanced from drawing the
tiny
details between the characters and the main background to primary character
artist, and his handiwork could be seen in more than 60 short subjects, many
featuring Donald Duck. When Western Publishing gained the rights in 1942
to publish Walt Disney characters in comic books, Barks was asked to
illustrate
a 10-page Donald Duck story written by someone else. "The story just didn"t
seem to hang together," Barks recalled. "I made some changes. Western kind
of liked it and asked me if I wanted to do my own stories. From there on, I
was
their fair-haired boy." Like every other artist in those days, Barks" name
never
appeared on a comic book. But that anonymity ended after he retired. Comic
book fans came out of the woodwork in the 1970s with the creation of
specialty
shops, trade publications and conventions. "I was astonished by the number
of
people who"d read my work and liked it," Barks once said. "These comic book
fans seem to want to shake the hand of the guy who drew all that stuff.
It"s still
mystifying to me." Barks stopped drawing in 1966, but continued writing duck
tales until his retirement in 1973. He painted Disney figures in oil at his
home in
Grants Pass until he contracted leukemia 13 months ago. Barks is survived by
a
daughter, Dorothy Gibson of Bremerton, Wash., four grandchildren, six great-
grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren.