ducks drive you up the wall in
CARL BARKS
Even though I am pushing sales for the Walt Disney Company, such as it is these days,
those guys are touchy about copyright. No kidding!
But I can feel along with them.
I give you
"The Duck Man!"
© 1982 by American Airlines' American Way
Carl Barks has been doing Donald Duck strips for all those Golden Years. They now seem even better than the animated cartoons; certainly Donald's character was more sympathetic in the strips. It was Carl Barks who populated Ducktown with the three nephews (complete with their habit of combining three balloons into one sentence; a trick that only works for strips, not for animated cartoons, by the way), the Beagle Boys and Tycoon Scrooge McDuck, plus any number of less-famous characters. Al these only appeared in animated cartoons long after he had introduced them in his comic strips. "The Duck Man" was the name he went by at the Walt Disney Studios.
Quite an accomplishment! especially when you realize how very few screen characters satisfactorily made the transition to the printed format, and vice versa.
Take Tom and Jerry, among the best cartoons ever made, but as a strip just ugh, or yecch. The Katzenjammer Kids may be a quite decent cartoon series, but it can't hold a candle to Wilhelm Busch' original Max und Moritz (translated back to a very nice - well, you know what I mean - Hans und Freetz by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder in the early MAD.)
A lot of Unca Carl's stuff is available from Amazon (and, no doubt, elsewhere).
BUY THEM! you hear me?
You'll never be sorry - not until they yellow and fall apart.
 | Carl Barks: Conversations Conversations With Comic Artists Carl Barks, Donald Ault, Donald D. Ault |     | |
| Gladstone Giant Album Comic Series | $8.95/ea | ||
| 1 |  | Donald Duck finds Pirate Gold! | |
| 2 | Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Sunken City | | |
| 4 | Uncle Scrooge: The Second Richest Duck | | |
Gladstone Comic Album Series | 5.95/ea | ||
| 1 | Uncle Scrooge:The Mines of King Solomon | | |
| 2 | Donald Duck: The Terror of the River | | |
| 4 |  | Uncle Scrooge: Back to the Klondike | |
| 5 |  | Donald Duck: Sheriff of Bullet Valley | |
| 6 | Uncle Scrooge: Land Beneath the Ground! | | |
| 10 | Donald Duck Aventures: Ancient Persia | | |
| 11 | Uncle Scrooge: Hawaiian Hideaway | | |
| 12 | Donald and Daisy | | |
| 13 |  | Donald Duck Adventures: The Golden Helmet | |
| 14 | Uncle Scrooge Album | | |
| 16 | Donald and Gladstone | | |
| 16 | Donald Duck Adventures: Voodoo Hoodoo | | |
| 18 | Donald Duck and the Junior Woodchucks | | |
| 19 | Uncle Scrooge: The Golden Fleecing | | |
| 21 |  | Donald Duck Family | |
| 23 |  | Donald Duck: Trick or Treat | |
| 25 |  | Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown | |
| 27 |  | Donald Duck: The Duck in the Iron Pants | |
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