Carl Barks

American cartoonist author and painter He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck He worked anonymously until late in his career fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist In 1987 Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame Barks worked for the Disney Studio and Western Publishing where he created Duckburg and many of its inhabitants such as Scrooge McDuck 1947Gladstone Gander 1948 the Beagle Boys 1951 The Junior Woodchucks 1951 Gyro Gearloose 1952 Cornelius Coot 1952 Flintheart Glomgold 1956 John D Rockerduck 1961 and Magica De Spell 1961 Cartoonist Will Eisner called him the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books Wikipedia Entry