An ever growing number of articles has motivated me to create an index page for them. I hope you will enjoy these articles. Some of these articles have been translated from other languages into English, some of them are my own and others were collected on the Internet. I would like to encourage all of you Barks fans out there to write your own article and send them to me. I will publish them here! Please e-mail those articles to aisuru2001@yahoo.com

Disney artist's work may leave students feeling just ducky by Hali Bernstein Saylor
This article focuses on "Last Days at San Jacinto High," one of Carl Barks' non-Disney oil-paintings. This 2001 article appeared in the Press-Enterprise newspaper in California and actually quotes the author of this website! (external link!)

Uncle Scrooge's Father by John Steele Gordon
This article is from the February/March edition 2001 of American Heritage: "Scrooge McDuck has been in the news lately because his creator, Carl Barks, died last year at the ripe old age of 99. His long life nearly coincided with the rise of an invention that, seemingly trivial at the time, would have major consequences throughout the creative world  the comic strip."

Carl Barks - The Author by Charsten Laqua, translated by Steve Ortman
This article was written for the book Wer ist Carl Barks which was edited by Gottfried Helnwein. It gives an enlightning insight in the workings of a master. It shows how Barks conceived a story and how he eventually finished one. 

The Classic Duck - Stuttgart Rolls Out Carpet for Carl Barks, the "Duck Man" by Sigfried Lambert, translated by Steve Ortman
As Barks visited Germany for the first time in 1994, Sigfried Lambert wrote this article for a local newspaper called the Heilbronner Stimme. This article, above all, shows that Germany has a great many Barks fans. Moreover it shows that Carl Barks has shaped, along with his translator Dr. Erika Fuchs, the post-war era of Germany. 

A Message to a War - Carl Barks' "Treasure of Marco Polo" by Steve Ortman
This is my first attempt at analysing a Barks' story. As "Treasure of Marco Polo" is one of the most controversial of Barks' comics, I tried to find out what Barks' intention was when he wrote the story. see for yourself as I embark into the politics of the Vietnam War and what a comic artist had to say to that.

Dispossession by Ducks: The Imperialist Treasure Hunt in Southeast Asia by David Kunzle
(Note: Access to JSTOR required. More information here)
Art Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, Depictions of the Dispossessed (Summer, 1990) , pp. 159-166. This very interesting and controversial article analyzes Carl Barks' later adventure tales set in Souteast Asia (such as The Treasure of Marco Polo and others). Written in response to the provocative Marxist interprestation How to Read Donald Duck by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, Kunzle's text seems to see a more multi-faceted picture. For example he writes: "Under a many splendored cloak of humor, the Disney comics evince this disrespect [toward cultures deemed alien and backward] in ways outrageous, stuble (and this may be its saving grace) ambivalence." Nevertheless, in my opinion, Kunzle misses the fact that sometimes these alien cultures were also seen as superior and at the same time the American culture of the time was mocked. Aliens in Barks' comics often are exaggerations of mythic interpretations of different culures, may they be outer space, Greek mythological beings or East Asian countries. Through this Barks tried to show the problems of American behavior in the world.

Mein Kampf - The Missing Cover by Steve Ortman
Finally I received an answer from Ehapa Verlag, Germany, the company that publishes Disney comics in Germany. As I looked through Johnny Grote's very interesting guide, I learned that the German version of the story "April Fools" did not show the true cover of the book that is displayed on the second page of the story. But judge for yourself:

Carl Barks, Father of Scrooge McDuck, Is Dead at 99 by Michael Pollak
(August 26, 2000) Carl Barks, the once anonymous "duck man" for Walt Disney whose draftsmanship and writing gained him a cultlike following among artists and fans of Donald Duck comic books and of his very own creation, Scrooge McDuck, died yesterday at his home in Grants Pass, Ore. He was 99.

Show honors maker of Donald, Duckburg by Robert A. Erlandson
(March 28, 1996) Even grouchy Donald Duck and his miser uncle, Scrooge McDuck, seemed to smile yesterday as Carl Barks looked back over the results of his 65-year career as one of America's premier comic-book artists. It was Mr. Barks who made Donald a thinking duck instead of an angry quacker and who created Uncle Scrooge, the world's funniest miser, because they reflected humanity. 

German Cops Clip Wings of 'Scrooge McDuck' Bomber by Mary Williams Walsh
(April 24, 1994) Police have closed a chapter in the annals of German crime with the capture of a mysterious, bomb-making extortionist who went by the remarkable moniker of Dagobert -- German for Scrooge McDuck.

The Life and Times of a Capitalist Duck by Charles Solomon
(July 10, 1988) Long the object of a vociferous cult following among fans of comic books, Carl Barks has only recently achieved widespread fame -- despite the fact that literally millions of baby-boomers grew up reading his work.

'Duck Tales Makes Mockery of Tradtition by Charles Solomon
(August 3, 1990) Walt Disney Studios' new animated film "Ducktales: The Movie: The Secret of the Lost Lamp" (citywide) looks exactly like what it is: A television program that's been padded and Spielberg-ized in an unsuccessful attempt to make it fit a theater screen.

Hollywood Signs:  The Duck Stops Here. . . by Charles Solomon
(September 20, 1987) If Walt Disney could see "DuckTales," his reaction would eclipse Donald Duck's most violent tantrums. Disney demanded -- and got -- better work from his artists in 1934, when Donald made his debut in "The Wise Little Hen."