Out Dec. 10, 2013.
From 1942 to his retirement in 1966, Carl Barks drew Donald Duck
comic books (the seventh greatest comic of the twentieth century
according to The Comics Journal) for Walt Disney. He took what
should have been a bland franchise and turned it into a classic of
comics. Drawing on his own experiences (most notably a brief stint as a
chicken farmer), Barks went to create a character who was remarkable . .
. for not being remarkable. In his pursuit of a good job, his boredom
with suburban life, his temper, his squabbles with neighbors, and his
resolve in the face of his many failures, Barks's Donald Duck was truly
your average American.
Peter Schilling, Jr. is the author of The End of Baseball
and writes about film and the arts for a variety of publications. He
has been reading and studying Carl Barks's entire catalog since he was a
child.
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