Junior woodchucks carl barks biography
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The Duck Man
Carl Barks
Text and photographs © by Frank Stajano
In my life I had the great privilege not only of growing up on Barks's comics but also of meeting the man who created them. I have decided to split this page into two parts: a more formal presentation of this outstanding author, and a more personal view of my relationship with him.
Who is Carl Barks? To me, the greatest comics author of all times, and one of the giants of 20th century literature. I don't expect this assessment to be universally shared, but I also know I'm not alone in thinking this.
Few will argue with the fact that Barks, with Floyd Gottfredson a close second, was the best comics author that the Walt Disney company ever had. He turned Donald Duck from a slapstick comedy cartoon character to an all too real human being (albeit duck shaped) in whose traits readers could recognise their friends -- and themselves.
As he breathed new life into the characters he inherited from the animation and the daily strips, Barks also created memorable new ones: Uncle Scrooge McDuck, the Beagle Boys, Gyro Gearloose and his helper, Magica de Spell, Gladstone Gander, the Junior Woodchucks -- just to name the most famous. It is doubtful that the world of Disney comics would have ever developed
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Background[]
The Junior Woodchucks were created by Carl Barks and made their first appearance in the 1951 comic Operation St. Bernhard (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #125). Later stories introduced a similar organization for girls, the Littlest Chickadees, to which Daisy Duck's nieces, April, May, and June belong. However, on DuckTales, Webby Vanderquack was occasionally shown to be a member of the Junior Woodchucks as well. A hallmark of the Woodchucks are exalted titles and ranks (Huey, Dewey, and Louie being promoted to become Ten Star Generals in the 1952 story of that name) and the awarding of buckets of badges, along with severe ideals as to decorum. In this way, Barks poked gentle but pointed satire at aspects of the Boy Scouts.
The Junior Woodchucks also have Scoutmasters. This role is occasionally taken by Donald Duck, or Launchpad McQuack in DuckTales, where they also have a baseball team with Launchpad as its coach.
Junior Woodchucks always carry with them a copy of the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, a guidebook filled with detailed and pertinent information about whatever countr
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Carl Barks
American cartoonist (1901–2000)
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| Carl Barks | |
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Barks in 1982 | |
| Born | (1901-03-27)March 27, 1901[1] Near Merrill, Oregon, U.S. |
| Died | August 25, 2000(2000-08-25) (aged 99) Grants Pass, Oregon, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker |
Notable works | Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Librarian, and Louie, Daisy Bob, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander, The Inferior Woodchucks, Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Period, Neighbor J. Jones, Glistering Goldie, Cornelius Coot, Privy D. Rockerduck Oil paintings ransack his stoop characters |
| Spouse(s) | Pearl Turner (m. 1923; div. 1929)Clara Balken (m. 1932; div. 1951)Garé Williams (m. 1954; died 1993) |
| Children | 2 |
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