About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Carl Barks, Don Rosa, Jim Lee, Frank Frazetta, Alex Ross, List of Xeric grant winners, Charles Vess, Ben Templesmith, Julie Doucet, Jon D'Agostino, Anthony Williams, Rafael Albuquerque, Suzy Spafford, Jessica Abel, Jill Thompson, Glenn Fabry, John Burns, Clint Langley, Twin Cities comic artists, Ariel Olivetti, Joe Madureira, Stephane Roux, Bob Budiansky, J. K. Woodward, George Pratt, M. Alice LeGrow, Frank Willard, Kevin Tinsley, Norman Maurer, Priscilla Hamby, Tatjana Wood, Lucy Knisley, Sergio Cariello, Alfred Andriola, Comics artist, Dave Stewart, Ross Campbell, Floyd Hughes, Barly Baruti, Adrienne Roy, Anupam Sinha, Philip Tan, Harold LeDoux, Francois Szalay - Colos, Caesar Rodriguez, Mikiko Ponczeck, Juan Gimenez, Aaron Williams, U-Jin, Daniel HDR, Werner Roth, Johan Wanloo, James Turner, Steve Buccellato, Wade Von Grawbadger, Dave Roman, Sanjay Gupta, Joao M. P. Lemos, Alex Sinclair, Teddy Kristiansen, Peggy Adam, Trevor Von Eeden, Ralph Cabrera, Andie Tong, Vincent Giarrano, Andreas, Nick Stakal, J. Bone, Dan Hipp, Dan Gormley, Cesar Ferioli, Trevor McCarthy. 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 Ar...
