If
we look for one man, who we might consider as the greatest in the
funny animal genre, then I have little doubt the honorific would go
to Carl Barks. Barks was a former Disney animator who took a
moonlighting gig drawing half of a Donald Duck story in Dell Comics
FOUR COLOR COMICS #9. Carl, who was unhappy with the working
conditions at the studio, discovered that he had a great aptitude for
comics.
Barks
spent over 20 years anomalously producing work for Dell and Gold Key.
Primarily he worked on Donald Duck or other characters in the “Donald
Duck Universe” like Huey, Dewy & Louie, Grandma Duck and Gyro
Gearloose. His most celebrated duck was one that he created, the
miserly Uncle Scrooge.
However,
Barks did not work exclusively on Disney properties. He also did a
respectable run on the MGM animated characters Barney Bear and Benny
the Burro. Here
are a couple stories Barks did with them.
Reading
this I am struck by the strange logic where the bear and the moose
wear clothes and ol Benny stays naked!
Pat
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