Biografia

One of his Donald Duck comic books - "The Sunken Yacht" (1949) - was the inspiration for a maritime salvage operation fifteen years later. In the comic, Donald and his nephews re-float Uncle Scrooge's sunken yacht by pumping it full of ping-pong balls. In 1964, the freighter "Al Kuwait" sank with approximately 6000 sheep in its cargo hold in a fresh water harbor near Kuwait City. Since the harbor was the source of most of the city's drinking water, it was feared that the rotting sheep would poison the city's water supply. A Dutch engineer named Karl Krøyer remembered the comic and suggested pumping 27 billion polystyrene balls into the ship's double hull to re-float it. The plan worked and the city's drinking water was saved. Later, when Krøyer applied for a Dutch patent for this process, he was denied because it was deemed that the idea belonged to Barks.

Most famous for his numerous humorous adventure comic books featuring Donald Duck and his relations, most notably his own creation, Uncle Scrooge McDuck.

Has been named "Disney legend" in 1991 (October 22) and so put his name and hand prints on the sidewalk around the theater of Disney Studios (California).

Named a "Disney Legend"

Two daughters, Dorothy and Peggy.

Recognition is fine if the rewards are high enough to repay me for loss of privacy and freedom of expression.

I have no cartoonists in my ancestral tree whatsoever, no artists that I know of, no writers that I know of. I was just sort of a mutant that came along.

Donald [Duck] is my favorite character, because he's like all my friends, my neighbors, myself, he's just Mister Everyman.

One of the greatest difficulties in handling characters is in figuring out how each character is going to react to a certain situation. In that respect, Uncle Scrooge is fairly easy to keep in line. He will always choose the cheapest way to meet an emergency.

I've always looked at the ducks as caricatures of human beings.