1971 - Duckster

The Walt Disney Duckster Award is known as the Oscar of Disney's and is given for meritorious contributions. It is an extremely rare award which has never been given on a regular basis.

Inscribed bronze figure of Donald Duck fingering his bow tie on a Bakelite base with metal plaque which holds Walt Disney's inscribed signature. First date of issue was 1952.

The Academy of Comic Book Arts Award (also known as the A.C.B.A. Award or the Shazam Award) was given to Barks in the category Best Humor Writer of Comic Books.

The award statuette was in the shape of a lightning bolt and given in an attempt to unionize the creative side of the comic book industry and partly as an attempt to raise the prestige of the industry by creating a comic book industry version of the Oscar. Last year of issue was 1974.

1977 - Inkpot

The Inkpot Award - which originates from 1974 - was given for lifetime achievement in comics and related areas. Barks received it for Outstanding Achievement in Comic Arts at the Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.

Another Rainbow Publishing started the giant task of publishing The Carl Barks Library which is a series of 30 books containing all of Barks' duck comic stories.

Both series were astonishing task which greatly reveal the magnitude of Carl Barks' work.

1984 - Stamps

One of the greatest honours that a state can bestow on a person is to immortalize him on its stamps or currency.
Many of the stamps issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Donald Duck in 1984 featured artwork taken from comic book covers. The stamps from Antigua and Barbuda are an excellent example of this.

The data for Barks' stamps are as follows:

1 cent - WDCS226/1959
2 cents - WDCS095/1948 (shown)
4 cents - WDCS177/1955 (shown)
5 cents - WDCS223/1959
5 dollars - WDCS130/1951

1987 - Kirby

The Kirby Award was given from 1985 to 1987 and is named after the famed comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby. In 1988 it was renamed The Will Eisner Award after writer and artist Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit. It is awarded at the Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Barks was given the award in 1987 and he entered the Hall of Fame.

In 1993 the Carl Barks Library album series (Gladstone Publishing) was given the award for Best Archival Collection.

Walt Disney World in Florida built a replica of Duckburg with special emphasis on the creations of Carl Barks.

There were statues of Scrooge McDuck and Cornelius Coot, Gyro Gearloose's house, and even a street named after Barks.

1991 - Disney Legend

Barks was - in the company of Julie Andrews, Fess Parker, Ken Anderson and Sterling Holloway - given the Disney Legend Award from the heads of the Disney company Michael Eisner and Roy Disney.

The prize depicts a roll of film from the cartoon Steamboat Willie twisting up along the Disneyland Castle and with an upwards pointing arm of Mickey Mouse's holding a magic wand.

The same day Barks made a cast of his handprints in a wet concrete tile for the Walk of Fame outside the Animation Building inside the studios.

1993 - Barkster

Diamond Collections Carl Barks Lifetime Achievement Award - known as the Barkster - was established in 1993 and designed by Barks who was also the first recipient.

Barks explained about the bronze statuette: I was approached by Steve Geppi who was going to create a special award and name it the Barkster. He asked me to design one for him. Well, I went ahead and designed it, to try to make something simple - kind of like the Oscar that they give away in Hollywood, which is a simple thing that a man can hold in his hand - but it also had to be slightly comic and look a little bit like it was designed by a cartoonist.

1994 - European Tour

Barks toured 11 European countries during the summer and everywhere he - for the first time really - met with great numbers of fans. But he also received numerous prizes. These are only a few examples:

Norway: Barks received an order at Oslo University from the students union, The Order of the Bear, a polar bear in green silk band.

Sweden: The biggest honour which can happen to a Junior Woodchuck is to be promoted to Exalted Hightail. Barks was named an Exalted Hightail by the Swedish donaldist organisation NAFS(k).

France: Named Honourary Citizen in Paris Barks received the Grande Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris, the city's highest distinction.

1995 - Citizen of the Year

In a unique ceremony at Oregon's Capitol building Barks was designated as Oregon Citizen of the Year and he received a standing applause from the senators.

The original paper is shown at the left and reproduced below:

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68th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--1995 Regular Session

A-Engrossed
Senate Joint Memorial 4
Ordered by the Senate March 29 Including
Senate Amendments dated March 29

Sponsored by Senator ADAMS (at the request of Stephanie Adams)

SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's brief statement of the essential features of the measure.

Honors comic book legend Carl Barks.

JOINT MEMORIAL

Whereas native Oregonian Carl Barks wrote and drew comic books featuring Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge for more than 25 years and is known as the 'Good Duck Artist' to millions of fans who grew up with his work; and
Whereas Carl Barks was instrumental in defining the character of Walt Disney's irascible Donald by doing 36 Donald Duck cartoons for Walt Disney in the 1930s; and
Whereas Carl Barks created Duckburg and many popular Disney characters, including Donald Duck's tight-fisted Uncle Scrooge; and
Whereas the comic books of Carl Barks reached an estimated audience of 10 million readers during the 1950s and reprints of his stories continue to entertain the children of the 1990s; and
Whereas an exhibition of 40 Carl Barks Disney oil paintings recently traveled to art galleries around the world; and
Whereas Carl Barks has been the recipient of many awards, including the highest award presented in Paris by the Lord Mayor and the prestigious Disney Legend Award presented by Roy Disney and Michael Eisner, and has lent his name to the Barkster Award, an award presented to artists for lifetime achievement in American cartooning; and
Whereas Carl Barks was born in and still resides in southern Oregon and continues to represent our state throughout the world with humor and charm; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon:
That we, the members of the Sixty-eighth Legislative Assembly, extend a warm welcome to Carl Barks and express our sincere gratitude for the joy and happiness that his outstanding career has brought to generations of Americans; and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of this memorial be presented to Carl Barks as an expression of our esteem.

The Comic Buyer Guide is awarding several prizes at their annual Comic Convention and this year the readers' choices were especially favourable to Barks' universe. First of all he was named Favourite Writer. Then the duck nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie won for Favourite Character. Furthermore, Uncle Scrooge Adventures won for Favourite Comic Book. Finally, his new comic book Horsing Around with History won for Favourite Comic Book Story.

To top it all William Van Horn - who drew Barks' award winning story - won for Favourite Penciller and Favourite Letterer.

1996 - Hall of Fame

Florida's International Museum of Cartoon Art - which was originally founded as the Museum of Cartoon Art by cartoonist Mort Walker in 1974 - was created to collect, preserve and exhibit original works of cartoon art from all over the world.
It is the only museum of its kind with cartoonists represented from over 50 countries. Its collection of over 160,000 original drawings includes every genre of the art and the collection also includes over 10,000 books on cartoons and 1,000 hours of film and tape of animated cartoons, interviews, and cartoon documentaries.

A national jury is voting cartoonists into the museum's Hall of Fame and this year Barks was elected.

A special ceremony outside Graumann's Chinese Theatre at the Disney/MGM Studios in Florida's Disney World took place April 13th when Barks was honoured for his artistic contributions and his signature and hand imprints were immortalized in the wet cement of the theatre's Walk of Fame.

US-stamp booklet produced for the postal service reprinting the entire famous Christmas on Bear Mountain story partly as stamps. The booklet celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of Uncle Scrooge.

1999 - Sparky

The Cartoon Art Museum's Sparky Award is named in honour of Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. Schulz was nicknamed Sparky after the horse Sparkplug from the comic strip Barney Google.
The museum celebrates the significant contributions of cartoon artists who reside in the western United States and who embody the talent, innovation and humanity of Schulz.