Eureka

On August 25, 2000, Carl Barks, the creator of Scrooge McDuck as well as many fabulous comic-book stories, died at the age of 99. Barks began his cartooning career for a magazine called Calgary Eye-Opener. A few years later, Barks went to work for Disney Studio. Shortly thereafter, he began working in their story department and co-worked many of Disney's famous cartoons. Preferring to break away from collaborative work, Barks left Disney Studio and contacted Western Publishing, which produced Disney comic-books. For 25 years Barks created cartoons of Donald Duck with his friends and neighbors in and around Duckburg (where Donald Duck lived). After retiring from drawing the comic-books, Barks went on to do paintings - many of which are from his stories. His painting career lasted 30 years. At the age of 97 Barks agreed to do a collaborative work again...this time with Giuseppe Armani/Florence Sculture d'Arte. "Eureka" is the magnificent result of this collaboration. "Eureka" is the three-dimensional interpretation of Mr. Barks' famous scene...the moment Uncle Scrooge discovers gold...and...becomes rich-rich-rich. "Eureka," #590-C, has a limited edition of 3,000. The first 500 of the edition was issued with certificates of verification signed by both Giuseppe Armani and Carl Barks. The antics Carl Barks created with Donald Duck and his cast of characters is loved and admired the world over. The reason was wonderfully summed up by Barks himself, "I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person who couldn't identify with him; he makes the same mistakes that we all make. At all times he is just a blundering person like the average human being, and I think that is one of the reasons people like the duck." (pulled from quotes from 1975 and 1981)