# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-barks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:10:42.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-barks"
name: "Carl Barks"
slug: "carl-barks"
description: "Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him \"The Duck Man\" and \"The Good Duck Artist\". In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American cartoonist (1901-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_barks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-03-27"
deathDate: "2000-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.52
  momentum:             2.92046396023198
  historical:           23.51219733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055119/"
    handle:    "nm0055119"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Կարլ Բարքս"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump