Uncle Scrooge

And I did discover what we called the good artist.

who was the artist that drew Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, and then come to find out in my exploring Disney history that that was Karl Barks, this incredible Disney legend who worked very extensively with Walt Disney on the Donald Duck theatrically released cartoons in the late 30s, early 40s, then turned his talents to comic books and is acknowledged by everyone as... probably right alongside Jack Kirby, the king of comics.

He's a master.

And any comic book artist will tell you that.

in the United States is publishing these volumes.

Oh, wow.

This is the first one, which focuses on Uncle Scrooge and his villains.

The second volume is coming out in December.

Since patents can't be issued on ideas that other people have previously published, the Dutch authorities denied Croyer his patent.

The man who could have patented this idea if he hadn't been so busy pumping out Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic books was, of course, native Oregonian Carl Barks, who by 1949 was already Walt Disney's most valuable comic book artist.

When Carl first came aboard at Disney, though, that status was still far in the future.

He was hired in 1935 as an in-betweener, one of the lower-level artists who drew the less important cells in between the keyframe cells that the lead artist would do.

So in 1983, Carl moved back to Oregon, settling in Grants Pass, and that is where he lived when, in August of 2000, he died at the age of 99.

Today there is an asteroid named after him.

Carl's favorite Donald Duck story was Island in the Sky, in which the ducks fly off to the asteroid belt to find a safe place for Uncle Scrooge to store his extra money.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are on record stating that not only did they get the rolling boulder booby trap scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark from an Uncle Scrooge comic, they planned the visuals of the entire movie around an aesthetic developed from Carl's Duck comics.

And one particular artist stood head and shoulders above everyone else at Disney.

He was the anonymous artist who wrote, designed, and inked Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics, published under Disney's license by Dell Comics, a division of Western Publishing, which, by the way, was best known for its Little Golden Books series of children's books.

This artist was good enough, and his style was distinctive enough, that fans and fellow artists started to recognize his work.

They called him the Good Duck Artist, or simply the Duck Man.

I would give them Calvin and Hobbes.

Uh, and I would give them, um, Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck and the, the nephews stories.

Oh, wait, that's...

How many am I supposed to do? Five? Okay.

Okay.

So we're gonna work our way up.

So they start with, let's have them start with Carl Barks' Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge.

Then do...