I was a very sick child growing up. My mom got me a disney comic for every day I survived. Carl Barks was my Hero. My biggest Regret is that I never got to meet him and tell him in person. R.I.P Carl Barks, The best in comic book storytelling, The Good Duck Artist, and my Hero. Great Documentary.
"Wow... I didn't know he was big in Denmark. He was a star in Finland." Bark's legacy was celebrated throughout Scandinavia in a way we Americans could only dream of. We're only lucky any of it got published at all.
Back when Barks produced his best work, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories was the best-selling comic book in all of the United States. Donald Duck was read by more children than Superman could dream of. Barks did reach a wide crowd in his home country, even though no one knew who he was. Today, though, there's no doubt he's far more celebrated and remembered in Europe.
Carl Barks, Jack Kirby & Will Eisner are my three all time favorite comic artists. Although there are others I like it’s just about impossible to imagine comics as a medium without them.
Awesome. I'm Canadian and first discovered his stories around age 4 in some of my mom's old Dells. They were such a big part of my childhood and formative years; in a way he really is part of who I am.
Wonderful interview. Makes me now know why I always enjoyed Uncle Scrooge so much. My bro too- I well remember he bought me some reprints..... about !40 years ago! Carl, your works fulfilled your fond hope- and may they live on forever. You were a well appreciated great writer in your genre, and a well liked person, I'm sure.
And also a national treasure in The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden, as well. And for us in Canada and USA way back during the 1940s and 1950s. He was my hero, and the catalyst for both my careers. I was glad to have met him. He was a nice a person as one would expect from reading his stories.
This is one of Carl`s first overboard trip. Egmont Group is danish publishing company with many contracts with many comic book publishers, This is why Donald Duck, Anders And - in danish. Kalle Anka swedish.- Aku Ankka Finnish , Donald always finish last so thats why "Finnish" is last :D. Carl basically lived the entire 19th century, i made a school work about his life, dont know if i still have it in the somewhere.
About 8-9 minutes is missing from the beginning. And there's an intro of 1 minute, showing Barks in a crowd of fans outside. I know a different source, without subtitles, without logo, but with muddy audio compared to your source. I'll try to have it uploaded somewhere (and then I'll let you know).
Danes... They were the ones who cut, censored, rewrote and even redrew the Carl Barks stories - finding them too "exciting" for children or just to give some second rate European cartoonists their full share in Scandinavian magazines in the 60's and 70's.
Maybe I just haven't done enough research about this but as someone who is in fact from Denmark I've never heard about his stories being cut, censored, redrawn, rewrote, however if that's true then that's just a shame since I'm all against changing art, I'd rather have the pure stories from him then those "cut/redrawn/rewrote/censored" ones that you're talking about. So yeah if it's all true what you're saying that's really unfortunate, the way you said "Danes" as if we actually wanted his stories censored or whatever bs, no one ever wanted that.
@@Sattlen I have a fairly extensive collection of the Scandinavian books - The Swedish run, but Egmont was still the publisher - and yeah, some of those 60's and 70's issues contain horrible tracing jobs of Barks stories. Truly a dark time for Disney Comics, but at least they got better at honoring his legacy in the 80's and onwards.
@@adlaistevenson2623 What I have noticed in a lot of the Carl Barks comics, the book sized ones that contain all these different Carl Barks stories is that.. they're recolored to be up to todays standards which is a shame, I want it how it was originally without someone "refining" or touching up his work to their own liking.
