Cartoonist Carl Barks voluntarily retires after 3 decades of drawing Donald Duck comic books for Disney. First hired in 1936, Barks started out as an apprentice animator on the storyboards of several Donald Duck shorts. From 1943 to 1966 he wrote and drew hundreds of Donald Duck stories and created Duckburg and several new characters for the comics, such as Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, Gladstone Gander and the Beagle Boys.
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