Best Selling Books by Carl Barks

Interviews with the Disney artist who created Scrooge McDuck and many well-loved comic books Disney artist Carl Barks (1901-2000) created one of Walt Disney''s most famous characters, Scrooge McDuck. Barks also produced more than 500 comic book stories. His work is ranked among the most widely circulated, best-loved, and most influential of all comic book art. Although the images he created are known virtually everywhere, Barks was an isolated storyteller, living in the desert of California and preferring to labor without public fanfare during most of his career. He created work of such exceptional quality that he was accorded the greatest autonomy of any Disney artist. He is the only comic book artist ever to receive a Disney Legends award. The influence of Barks''s work 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 Barks''s death at the age of ninety-nine, Roy Disney praised him for his "brilliant artistic vision." Carl Barks: Conversations is the only comprehensive collection of Barks''s interviews. It ranges chronologically from the very first one (with Malcolm Willits, the fan who uncovered Barks''s identity) to the artist''s final conversations with Donald Ault in the summer of 2000. In between are interviews conducted by J. Michael Barrier, Edward Summer, Bruce Hamilton, and others. Several of these interviews are published here for the first time. Ault''s friendship with Barks, ranging over a period of thirty years, provides an unusually intimate resource not only for standard q&a interviews but also for casual conversations in informal settings. Carl Barks: Conversations reveals previously unknown information about the life, times, and opinions of one of the master storytellers of the twentieth century. Donald Ault, a professor of English at the University of Florida, is the author of Narrative Unbound: Re-Visioning William Blake''s The Four Zoas and Visionary Physics: Blake''s Response to Newton. His work has been published in Studies in Romanticism, The Wordsworth Circle, Modern Philology, and The Comics Journal.

The third volume focuses on the early 1950s, universally considered one of Carl Barks''s very peak periods. In"A Christmas for Shacktown," a rare 32-pager, the Ducks raise money to throw a Christmas party for the children of the slums (depicted with surprisingly Dickensian grittiness). Longer stories include "The Golden Helmet" and "The Gilded Man." There are 10 of Barks''s 10-pagers, as well as another nine of Barks''s rarely seen one-page Duck gags, all painstakingly recolored to match the original coloring as exactly as possible, and supplemented with an extensive series of notes and behind-the-scenes essays by the foremost Duck experts in the world.

Fantagraphics'' recent line remixes Carl Barks''s Donald Duck comics into affordable, kid-friendly books.

Uncle Scrooge discovers the fabled lost treasure of King Solomon!

From the Everglades to the Grand Canyon, danger at every turn!

Kidnapped, Donald escapes, only to wander hopelessly in the far frozen north! Next, he invents a rocket fuel powerful enough to send him to the moon!

In this collection of world-famous Disney comics stories, Donald Duck decides to enlist Gladstone Gander and his unfailing good luck to prove a fortune cookie wrong when it warns, "You can''t do anything right today." (Good luck with that!) Next, it''s off to the roaring North Seas, on one of Uncle Scrooge''s schooners, where Donald and the boys compete to bring in the most fish. But they''re falling behind -- until Donald unlocks Scrooge''s "Secret Device." Then Donald gets into trouble when Gyro invents a matter transmitter that only half works. And Donald and the boys, while on a trip to the Grand Canyon (to expose a fraud), get captured by cavemen! Plus: Daisy Duck strikes a blow for women''s equality when she and her nieces climb Precipice Peak -- a feat that no man has ever dared! Also in this volume -- Carl Barks''s stories of the Junior Woodchucks starring Huey, Dewey, and Louie, written and penciled by Barks with finishes by internationally acclaimed Duck artist Daan Jippes! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of surprise, delight, comedy, adventure, and all-around cartooning brilliance: 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored with insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts.

A loony balloon, a fraidy falcon, and a new Woodchuck series! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous puzzlements, and all-around comics brilliance.

Carl Barks tops the list of greatest comic book artists of many devoted fans around the world. He has often been called "The Good Duck Artist" by avid readers of all ages of his Disney Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics. Those Duck stories have been reprinted and loved again and again by millions. But, while the Duck oeuvre is easily obtainable, only a few elite fans have gotten rare glimpses of yet another fabulous, alternate universe that Barks created around the classic animation characters Barney Bear and Benny Burro. Hidden in rare, Golden Age comics only Scrooge McDuck could afford are wonderful, full-color fantasy and fun stories as only Barks can write and draw ''em! Collected for the first time in a deluxe, hardcover, full-color tome, are all of these masterpieces, meticulously restored. The Barks'' Bear Book is edited and designed by Eisner-Award-winning comics historian Craig Yoe, with a fascinating introduction and special cover is by Barks-devotee Jeff Smith, the best-selling graphic novelist of the Bone comics series. As with the entire line of Yoe Books, the reproduction techniques employed strive to preserve the look and feel of expensive vintage comics. Painstakingly remastered, enjoy the closest possible recreation of reading these comics when first released.

Donald becomes a maharajah, a giant sea serpent attacks, and Donald invents an atom bomb!

Carl Barks''s greatest creation: The miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses the Beagle Boys are well-known to and beloved by young and old. This volume starts off with "Only a Poor Old Man," the defining Scrooge yarn (in fact his first big starring story) in which Scrooge''s plan to hide his money in a lake goes terribly wrong. Two other long-form classics in this volume include "Tralla La La" (also known as "The Bottlecap Story," in which Scrooge''s intrusion has terrible consequences for a money-less Eden) and "Back to the Klondike" (Barks disciple Don Rosa''s favorite story, a crucial addition to Scrooge''s early history, and famous for a censored bar brawl that was restored in later editions). Also in this volume are the full-length "The Secret of Atlantis," and over two dozen more shorter stories and one-page gags.

Donald, Uncle Scrooge, and the nephews go on a wild parrot chase; then, there are sea monsters, millionaires, spies, and more in this boxed set!

In two volumes snugged into a sturdy slipcase, 440 pages of Barks''s brilliance -- at a special price that even Uncle Scrooge couldn''t resist!

This volume of the world-famous Duck comics introduces Magica De Spell, Scrooge''s sorceress nemesis! Plus adventures in the frozen North and on a rogue planet headed straight for Earth.

The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial is a quarterly publication of the international Carl Barks Fan Club, featuring pictorial articles regarding the amazing worldwide influence of Carl''s stories and artwork on literature, the arts, education and literacy.

The secret of Ali Baba''s hidden treasure, the return of Magica de Spell -- and a rare story never before seen in the U.S.!

In this collection of internationally acclaimed Duck comics, Uncle Scrooge has adventures in outer space and on the high seas!

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