Carl Barks : conversations / edited by Donald Ault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barks, Carl, 1901-2000.

Contributor:

Ault, Donald D.

Steven Rothman Collection of Comics, Cartoons, and Graphic Novels (University of Pennsylvania)

Comics Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Conversations with comic artists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barks, Carl, 1901-2000--Interviews.

Barks, Carl.

Barks, Carl, 1901-2000.

Cartoonists--United States--Interviews.

Cartoonists.

United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Penn Provenance:

Rothman, Steven D. (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xlvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2003]

Summary:

Carl Barks (1901-2000) was the creator of one of Walt Disney's most famous characters, Scrooge McDuck. He produced work of such exceptional quality that he was accorded the greatest autonomy of any Disney artist and was the only comic book artist ever to receive a Disney Legends award. Although the images he created are known virtually everywhere, he was an isolated storyteller, living reclusively in the desert of California and preferring to labor without public fanfare during most of his career. His influence, however, on such filmmakers as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and on such artists as Gottfried Helnwein has extended Barks's significance far beyond the boundaries of comics. After his death at the age of ninety-nine, Roy Disney praised him for his "briliant artistic vision." Carl Barks: Conversations, the only comprehensive collection of Barks's interviews, reveals previously unknown information about the life, times, and opinions of one of the master storytellers of the twentieth century. His work is ranked among the most widely circulated, best-loved, and most influential of all comic book art.

Contents:

The Duck Man / Malcolm Willits, Don Thompson, Maggie Thompson 3

A Conversation with Carl Barks / J. Michael Barrier, Glenn Bray, Bob Foster, Bill Spicer 19

Writing to Please Myself: An Interview with Carl Barks / Paul Ciotti 26

Carl Barks, Telling It Like It Is / Donald Ault 37

Carl Barks: On His Life and Career / J. Michael Barrier 50

Carl Barks and His Ducks / J. Michael Barrier 69

Of Ducks and Men: Carl Barks Interviewed / Edward Summer 80

An Interview with Carl Barks, Duckburg's True Founding Father / Donald Ault, Thomas Andrae, Stephen Gong 91

An Interview with Carl and Gare Barks / Klaus Strzyz 109

Views from Carl Barks / E. B. Boatner 120

Fortune Favors the Bold: An Interview with Carl Barks / Edward Summer 123

Interview with Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson / Bruce Hamilton, Bill Blackbeard 132

Carl Barks Interview / Bruce Hamilton 137

Conversation with Carl Barks / Gottfried Helnwein 140

Reluctant Cult Hero: Carl Barks / Michael Naiman 155

Carl Barks Speaks with the Finnish Press / Markku Kivekas 161

When Donald Duck Turned 60 / Erik Svane 165

Carl Barks at Disneyland Paris / Sebastien Durand, Didier Ghez 173

Carl Barks Remembers "A Perfect Life" / Donald Ault, Lynda Ault 181

Carl Barks: On Floyd Gottfredson / Leonardo Gori, Francesco Stajano 198

"Those Things That Came Along in the 20th Century and Became Obsolete": Carl Barks on the Past, Present, and Future of Comic Books / Donald Ault 205

Living the Stories: The Carl Barks Genius / Donald Ault, Bruce Hamilton, John Ronan, Nicky Wright 210

Ideas Flowing Like Waterfalls: Some Reflections from Carl Barks at 98 / Donald Ault 215

Carl Barks: Spools of Memory / Donald Ault 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1578065003

1578065011

OCLC:

50251924