Painting Fine-Art Cartoons in Oils - Enchanted Images

Happy Hooligan by
Frederick Burr Opper.
Wash Tubbs by Roy Crane.
a cartoonist from the beginning
A 1901 copy of the San Francisco Examiner, printed the year Barks was born.
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The Sunday comic section
of the San Francisco
Examiner made a huge
impression on Barks as a
child. Printed comic strips,
in full color, were one of the
few entertainments available
to a small boy living on an
isolated homestead in the
wheatlands of Eastern Oregon.
Barks taught himself
to draw by emulating the
styles of famous comic-strip
artists. He would collect and
study comic strips until he
started drawing the Disney
ducks full time.
Some of Barks’s earliest cartoons, scribbled into a
gradeschool reader. He’s already beginning to think
like a satirical cartoonist: Note how “pigeon,” “peaches”
and “honey” are all illustrated with female figures.