I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.More Carl Barks quotes [10/11/2011 09:10:15]

Before I started drawing a comic, I would read my script for it ten or twenty times.More Carl Barks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.More Carl Barks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.More Carl Barks quotes [10/11/2011 09:10:47]

Ideas generally come in a very complicated form, and you've got to strip them down to make them usable. Boil a gag down to its simplest form, and it is readily discernible to anybody who sees it.More Carl Barks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]