About the Author

Joseph Robert Cowles and Carl Barks became friends back in the 1960s, about the time Joseph was entering his career in marketing and publishing, and Carl was preparing to retire from comic book cartooning to take up oil painting. Joseph produces The Carl Barks Fan Club Pictorial series of images and articles about Carl Barks, and among other books has published the dissertation Recalling Carl, his quest to inspire the production of major motion pictures based on Carl's work, which Joseph contends has the power to become the most valuable motion picture entertainment franchise of all time.