About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: People from Grants Pass, Oregon, Carl Barks, Bob Holly, Ken Williams, Craig Hollywood, Helen Chenoweth-Hage, Jerry Sherk, Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Josh Haynes, Ty Burrell, Terry Carr, David Anders, Eugene "Debbs" Potts, Shelley Shannon, Bob Christie, Josh Saunders, Drew Carpenter, Jack Lee Harelson, KBLN, The Toyes, Ron Maurer, Scott O'Hara, Charles C. Pixley, Michael Saucedo, Ralph Wright, Grants Pass High School, Robert G. Thompson, Jamie Slocum, Hidden Valley High School (Grants Pass, Oregon), Ethen Beavers, North Valley High School, Jeremy Maxwell, Bill Dellinger, Dutch Bros. Coffee, Provolt, Oregon, Grants Pass Daily Courier, Mike Johnson, KROG, Dick James, David Goines, Newbridge High School, KLDR, Steve Raines, Three Rivers School District, Redwoods Hotel, KRRM, New Hope Christian Schools, Grants Pass Airport, Pat Beach, Tom Blanchard, KCGP-LP, KAJO, Grants Pass Supervisor's Warehouse, Scott Lewis, Hub Pernoll, Grants Pass School District, Southern Oregon General Hospital Heliport, Don Summers. Excerpt: Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 - August 25, 2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone 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). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. Writer-artist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon to William Barks and his wife Arminta Johnson. He had an older brother named Clyde. Barks once stated t...
