The Complete Donald Duck Collection (by carl Barks)
Barks left Disney in 1942 because, a solitary worker at heart, he was unhappy with the studio environment. He wasn\'t looking for a career in comic books, but was quickly offered steady work in that medium â?? a series of ten-page gag vehicles for Donald Duck and his nephews in Walt Disney\'s Comics & Stories. The first appeared in the 31st issue (April, 1943), and Barks continued writing and drawing them until 1966. In this series, Barks developed Donald\'s character far beyond the one-dimensional bundle of irascibility seen in the animated version.
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 in the United States who couldn\'t identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make. He is sometimes a villain, and he is often a real good guy and 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.\"
(Carl Barks, taken from 1975 and 1981 quotes)