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Informationen zum Autor Carl Barks (1901-2000, b. Merrill, Oregon; d. Grants Pass, Oregon), one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the 20th century, entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of Donald Duck and Barks's most famous character creation, Uncle Scrooge. Over the course of his career, he wrote and drew more than 500 comics stories totaling more than 6,000 pages, most anonymously. He achieved international acclaim only after he semi-retired in 1968. Among many other honors, Barks was one of the three initial inductees into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame in 1987. (The other two were Jack Kirby and Will Eisner.) In 1991, Barks became the first Disney comic book artist to be recognized as a "Disney Legend," a special award created by Disney "to acknowledge and honor the many individuals whose imagination, talents, and dreams have created the Disney magic." He has been similarly honored in many other countries around the world. Klappentext Anchored by the Dickensian "A Christmas for Shacktown, " this volume collects the universally beloved comic adventures of Donald Duck, his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and his Uncle Scrooge. Zusammenfassung 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.
