Carl Barks' Duck: Average American

Peter Schilling, Jr.

Carl Barks' Duck: Average American
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Country
United States
Published
20 January 2015
Pages
120
ISBN
9780988901407

Carl Barks’ Duck: Average American

Peter Schilling, Jr.

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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