A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

The Comics Journal 227 (USA. Seattle, WA.): Transcription. Portions in altered form.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Sources

Date: 2000, June 19
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Donald Ault
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Landmark: Last recorded conversation with Donald Ault.

Sources

Date: 1962, December
Location: California, San Jacinto
Answering: Carl Barks Malcolm Willits, Don Thompson, Maggie Thompson
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Comic Art #7 (USA): Transcription. Large portion. The original interview for this article was conducted in December 1962 in San Jacinto, California, by Malcolm Willits. In 1968 the printed version was transcribed by Maggie Thompson and heavily edited and expanded by Don Thompson.; Reprinted in The Duckburg Times 10/11.
Stripschrift #59-60 (Netherlands): Dutch translation with annotations, by Daan Jippes.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Sources

Date: 1960s?
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Barbara E. Boatner
Contributors: Garé Barks
Recording: unknown

Publications:

Stripschrift #105 (Netherlands): Dutch translation.

Sources

Date: 1971, May 30
Location: California, Goleta
Answering: Carl Barks J. Michael Barrier, Glenn Bray, Bob Foster, and Bill Spicer
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book (USA. New York): Transcription. Portions in altered form.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion. Previously unpublished.

Sources

Date: 1972, September 28
Location: California, Goleta
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Paul Ciotti
Recording: audiotape

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription (by Donald Ault?), from the original audiotape. Large portion. Previously unpublished.

Sources

Date: 1973, May 29
Location: California, Goleta
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Donald Ault
Recording: audiotape

References:

Modern Inventions
Donald's Nephews
The Hockey Champ
Huey, Dewey and Louie

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set VII (USA): (page 7B-296; 7B-297; 7B-300; 7B-423); Transcription. Small portions.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription by Donald Ault, from the original audiotape. Large portion. Previously unpublished.

Sources

Date: 1973, November 22
Location: California, Goleta
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: J. Michael Barrier
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book (USA. New York): Transcription. Portions in altered form.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion. Previously unpublished.

Sources

Date: 1974, October 5 and 6 (Atlanta, Georgia)
Location: Georgia, Atlanta
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: J. Michael Barrier
Recording: audiotape?

Description: Recorded by Michael Barrier.

References:

W US 8-02 message from uncharted island

Publications:

Funnyworld 16 ([USA]): (page 5); Transcription. Small portion.
Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book (USA. New York): (MBAC-137).; Transcription. Portions in altered form.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Sources

Date: 1975, April
Location: ...
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Edward Summer
Recording: [film? video? audio?] (recording engineer: Sam Grossman)

Description: Recorded in April 1975 in connection with a film series by Edward Summer entitled "The Men Who Made the Comics", a project supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency in Washington, D.C. Other films in the series include those on Milton Caniff and Jack Kirby, portions of which have been seen on CBS's Camera Three. Summer is currently working on a feature film titled "Teefr". The recording engineer for this interview was Sam Grossman.

Publications:

Panels No. 2 (USA): Transcription. Slightly altered version. (Edited and prepared for publication by John Benson.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Sources

Date: 1975, August 4
Answering: Carl Barks Thomas Andrae, Donald Ault, Stephen Gong
Recording: videotape

References:

QMS 1937-008 Modern Inventions
W OS 223-02 in "Lost in the Andes!"
W OS 386-02 in "Only a Poor Old Man"
W WDC 138-02 cornelius coot statues

Publications:

The Duck Man an interview with Carl Barks (USA): Video-release of the interview. Large portion.
The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): (page 3B-518); Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 6 and 23)
The Carl Barks Library - Set IV (USA. Arizona, Scottsdale): (page 4A-007); Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 1)
The Carl Barks Library - Set VII (USA): (page 7B-296); Transcription. Small portion.
The Carl Barks Library - Set VIII (USA): (08C-564); Transcription. Small portion.
Carl Barks and the Disney Ducks (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 2)
The Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge Comics One Pagers in Color No. 2 (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 12)
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 3 (USA): Transcription. Large portion.
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 5 (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 3)
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney Comics and Stories in Color No. 21: Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 1)
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney Comics and Stories in Color No. 23: Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 1 and 2)
The Comics Journal 227 (USA. Seattle, WA.): Transcription. Large portion.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Sources

Date: 1977
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Daan Jippes
Recording: interview by mail

Publications:

Stripschrift #105 (Netherlands): Dutch translation.

Sources

Date: 1980, October 31
Location: California, Temecula
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Klaus Strzyz
Recording: [unknown]

Description: Andreas C. Knigge was present at this interview.

Publications:

Informal German publication, in a limited edition of 100.: Transcription. Large portion?; Translation by Stephen Eberhart? Revised by Carl Barks?; Published shortly after the interview.
Disney von Innen: Gespräche über das Imperium der Maus (Germany): Transcription. Large portion?; (Are the contents exactly the same as in the informal publication?)
The Duckburg Times 17/18 (USA): Transcription. Large portion.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.; Checked and revised by Klaus Strzyz, 2 May 2002.

Questions: Carl Barks Conversations mentions "Translation by Stephen Eberhart. Revised by Carl Barks." Does this information refer to the German publication? Or to the publication in The Duckburg Times 17/18? (Or both?)

Sources

Date: [1980? Or "1/2/79"?]
Answering: Tony Strobl
Interviewer: Klaus Strzyz
Contributors: ...
Recording: unknown
Photographs: ...

Publications:

The Duckburg Times 16 ([USA]): (page 7); Contains a "1/2/79" Donald drawing by Strobl.; Copyright notice of the article is "© 1980".

Questions: Does the date "1/2/79" refer to January 2, 1979, or to February 1, 1979?

Sources

Date: [1981?]
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: E.B. Boatner
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion?
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Excerpts.

Questions: Is this one interview, or a combination of interviews?

Sources

Date: [1981?]
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Edward Summer
Recording: [film? video? audio?]

Description: Recorded in connection with a film series by Edward Summer entitled "The Men Who Made the Comics", a project supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency in Washington, D.C.

Publications:

Uncle Scrooge His Life & Times (USA): Transcription. Portions? Part of interview material recorded between 1975 and 1981, in connection with a film series entitled "The Men Who Made the Comics".
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Portions? Part of interview material recorded between 1975 and 1981, in connection with a film series entitled "The Men Who Made the Comics".; (Are the contents exactly the same as in Uncle Scrooge His Life & Times?)

Questions: Is this one interview, or a combination of interviews?

Sources

Date: 1982, May 22
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Wim van Helden
Contributors: Garé Barks; Daan Jippes; Diana Jippes
Recording: audio
Photographs: Ineke Overeem

References:

Old King Cole
Worth a Whole Month's Wages ?

Publications:

Carl Barks en de Mythe van Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Netherlands): "'Er zit geen genialiteit in die verhalen, alleen maar zweet' Interview met Carl Barks" (page 6 - 23); Dutch transcription. Three photographs (greyscale).

Surviving material: Audio recording.

Sources

Date: 1982, December 6
Location: California, North Hollywood, at the appartment of Floyd Gottfredson Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson Bruce Hamilton and Bill Blackbeard
Recording: [unknown]

Description: Garé Barks, Mattie Gottfredson, Helen Hamilton, Leonard (John) Clark, and Russ Cochran were present at the interview.

Publications:

Mickey Mouse in Color. The Art of Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks. (USA): Transcription. Large portion?
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.; (Are the contents exactly the same as in Mickey Mouse in Color. The Art of Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks.?)

Sources

Date: 1983, January 8
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Bruce Hamilton
Recording: unknown

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 9 (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 3)

Sources

Date: 1983, September 24
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Bruce Hamilton
Contributors: Questions by Bruce Hamilton, Thomas Andrae and Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

References:

W OS 203-02 in "The Golden Christmas Tree"
W US 18-02 Land of the Pygmy Indians

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): (page 3B-518); Divided transcription. Small portion. (footnote 5, 9, 10, 11, and 28)
Uncle Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks - Uncle Scrooge Adventures 18 (USA): Transcription. Small portion.

Sources

Date: 1983, October 2
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Bruce Hamilton
Contributors: Questions by Bruce Hamilton, Thomas Andrae and Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): (page 3B-518); Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 7 and 38)

Sources

Date: 1983, Spring
Location: California, Burbank, in a motel Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson
Interviewer: Bruce Hamilton
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Mickey Mouse in Color. The Art of Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks. (USA): Transcription. Large portion?
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.; (Are the contents exactly the same as in Mickey Mouse in Color. The Art of Floyd Gottfredson and Carl Barks.?)

Sources

Date: 1984, June 4
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Bruce Hamilton
Contributors: Questions by Bruce Hamilton, Thomas Andrae and Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): (page 3B-521); Divided transcription. Small portion. (footnote 26 and 27)

Sources

Date: 1984, June 24
Location: Oregon, Grants Pass
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Bruce Hamilton
Contributors: Some questions were composed by Thomas Andrae
Recording: [unknown]

References:

CU 5 six cups [cover layout]

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set III (USA): (page 3B-008); Transcription. Small portion.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion. Previously unpublished.

Sources

Date: 1985, August 10
Answering: Ward Kimball
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

Description: Contains information about animating Uncle Scrooge for the 1967 «Scrooge McDuck and Money» cartoon. Barks is mentioned.

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set IV (USA. Arizona, Scottsdale): (page 4B-464); Transcription. Four paragraphs.
The Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge Comics One Pagers in Color No. 2 (USA): Transcription. Four paragraphs. (footnote 9)

Sources

Date: 1985, November 10
Answering: Chase Craig
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

References:

W DD 26-02 in Trick or Treat

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (USA): (page 2C-497); Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 2)

Sources

Date: 1985, November 10
Answering: Jack Hannah
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

References:

W DD 26-02 in Trick or Treat: (In fact, the cartoon on which the story was based.)

The Carl Barks Library - Set II (page 2C-497): Divided transcription. Small portion. (footnote 1 and under illustration on page 498)

Sources

Date: 1987, November 7
Type: Telephone conversation
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Uncle Scrooge Comics One Pagers in Color No. 2 (USA): Description of Barks' comments on "DuckTales" television series. (footnote 13)

Sources

Date: 1991, December 10-11
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown
Photographs: not credited

Publications:

Carl Barks and the Disney Ducks (USA): Divided transcription. Large portion.
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 1 (USA): 1991 December 10-11. Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 2 and 5)
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 2 (USA): 1991, December 11. Transcription. Large portion.; Two photographs (greyscale): One of Geoffrey interviewing Carl Barks; and one of a break, in which Blum and Barks review Another Rainbow's "The Fine Art of Walt Disney's Donald Duck".
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 5 (USA): 1991 December 10-11. Transcription. Small portions. (footnote 1)
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 7 (USA): 1991, December 11. Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 5, referring to The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney Comics and Stories in Color No. 2.)
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 14 (USA): 1991, December 10. Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 1)

Sources

Date: 1992, March 31
Type: Telephone conversation
Answering: Bill Spicer
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 4 (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 1)

Sources

Date: 1992, April 26
Type: Telephone conversation
Answering: Garé Barks
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 6 (USA): Transcription. Small portion.

Notes: More information about Garé Barks

Sources

Date: 1992, July 11
Location: Oregon
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Gottfried Helnwein
Recording: audiotape
Photographs: 2?

Publications:

Wer ist Carl Barks (Germany.): Transcription in German translation. Large portion? Edited form.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.; Expanded version of the interview as published in Wer ist Carl Barks.; Originally translated from the German by Roswitha Mueller, revised by Gottfried Helnwein. The quotations from Carl Barks contained in this interview are taken from the audiotape interview as transcribed by the Helnwein Studio and are thus Barks's original words.
Internet publication (Summer 2003, possibly July or August): Transcription. Large portion.; See Gottfried Helnwein | TEXTS | English Texts | HELNWEIN TALKS WITH CARL BARKS

Sources

Date: 1992, August 16
Type: Telephone conversation
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Geoffrey Blum
Recording: unknown

Publications:

The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color No. 9 (USA): Transcription. Small portion. (footnote 1)

Sources

Date: 1993, August 27
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Michael Naiman
Recording: videotape

Publications:

Happy Birthday, Carl Barks! - Carl Barks' 95th and 96th Birthday Celebrations (USA): Video-release of the interview. Portion (10 minutes), not included in "The Overstreet World of Comic Books".
The Overstreet World of Comic Books (USA. Cleveland, Tenn. (Overstreet); Indianapolis, Ind. (Treshold)): Video-release of the interview. Portion (5 minutes), not included in "Happy Birthday, Carl Barks! - Carl Barks' 95th and 96th Birthday Celebrations".
Overstreet's Golden Age Quarterly #2 ([unknown]): Transcription. Large portion?
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Status: Recording of the full 75 minutes interview exists, but as far as known it is not in circulation.

Sources

Date: 1993, September 27
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Markku Kivekas
Recording: [unknown]

Description: Continued in an interview of 1993, October 7.

Publications:

Danish "Aku Ankka" [Christmas Premium] 52B/1993: Transcription. Portions.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Small portion?; Combined with an interview of 1993, October 7.

Sources

Date: 1993, October 7
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Markku Kivekas
Recording: [unknown]

Description: Continued from an interview of 1993, September 27.

Publications:

Danish "Aku Ankka" [Christmas Premium] 52B/1993: Transcription. Portions.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Small portion?; Combined with an interview of 1993, September 27.

Sources

Date: 1994, July 7
Location: France, Disneyland Paris
Answering: Carl Barks Sébastien Durand and Didier Ghez
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Internet publication: Transcription. Large portion.; See Interview with Carl Barks, Disneyland Paris; July 7, 1994
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.; (Are the contents exactly the same as in the internet publication?)

Sources

Date: 1994, July 7
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Erik Svane
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

Quadrado #4, 1997 (Portugal): Transcription. Translated? Large portion?
SWOF #27, 1999 (Switzerland): Transcription. Translated? Large portion?
BoDoï #34, 2000 (France): Transcription. Translated? Large portion?
Stripschrift #331 (Netherlands): Transcription. Translated? Large portion?
Rackham #3, 2001 (Denmark): Transcription. Translated? Large portion?
Hogan's Alley #9, 2001 (USA): Transcription. Retranslated? Large portion?
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion.

Sources

Date: 1994, July 14
Answering: Carl Barks unknown
Recording: videotaped for television (using blue screen)

Publications:

Nova, July 1994.: Television programme, hosted by Paul Witteman, containing only a few excerpts of the interview. Blue screen background is replaced by comic book panels and paintings.
Carl Barks & Co. #22 (Denmark): Transcription of a part of the interview, more than was broadcasted by "Nova".
Stripschrift [unknown issue] (Netherlands): Dutch transcription of a part of the interview, more than was broadcasted by "Nova".

Sources

Date: 1997, June 13
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks Donald and Lynda Ault
Recording: audio and video

Description: Unpublished.

References:

CB OIL 17 Pleasure in the Treasure ?: If not, then this reference is part of the June 14, 1997 interview by Donald and Lynda Ault

Publications:

The Comics Journal 227 (USA. Seattle, WA.): Transcription. Portions in altered form.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Excerpts.; Transcribed from the original videotape interview.; Combined with an interview of 1997, June 14.

Sources

Date: 1997, June 14
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks Donald and Lynda Ault
Recording: audio and video

Description: Unpublished.

References:

CB OIL 17 Pleasure in the Treasure ?: If not, then this reference is part of the June 13, 1997 interview by Donald and Lynda Ault
CB OIL 149 helicopter and dollar-sign smoke signal

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Excerpts.; Transcribed from the original videotape interview.; Combined with an interview of 1997, June 13.

Sources

Date: 1999, April 28
Location: Oregon, Grants Pass
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Donald Ault
Recording: [unknown]

Publications:

The Comics Journal 227 (USA. Seattle, WA.): Transcription. Portions in altered form.
Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion. Previously unpublished.

Sources

Date: 1999, April 30
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks Donald Ault, Bruce Hamilton, John Ronan, and Nicky Wright
Recording: [unknown]

Description: Unpublished.

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Excerpts.

Sources

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Date: 1999, June 5
Location: [unknown]
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Donald Ault
Recording: [unknown]

Description: Telephone conversation.

Publications:

Carl Barks Conversations (USA): Transcription. Large portion?; Combined with an faxed interchange of 1999, June 3; and responses handwritten by Barks on 1999, July 22.

Sources

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