No funny animal comic book can exist without a string of gags (the terms Funny and Comic are dead giveaways here, eh?). Gags of many types compile in a typical story; some are pretty straightforward and spotted right away, while others can be more subtle and not fully noticed or understood until at a later reading.
Carl Barks used all sorts of gag types imaginable in his duck stories. Some were dialogue gags that sprung from his vivid imagination, while others were sight gags of the type he had learned from his years in the Disney Studios. Common for most of Barks' gags is that they stood out as often being funnier and more clever than other artists' gags, and to that end it is no coincidence that we, the readers, remember a great many of them by heart. Just thinking of one funny situation in a story usually has the wonderful effect that you automatically recall the whole scenario - and perhaps also the whole story - with great reverence. This was one of Barks' unparallelled strengths; he was able to dream up brilliant and versatile gags that we remember and cherish forever.

The gag type examples have been divided into two main groups in the sub-pages for clarification - Dialogue Gags and Sight Gags - and a further division has been made in order to show you some of the many gag types Barks used (you should be aware that Barks made many other types of gags in his stories, but you are 'only' presented with 20 types!). Also, do please notice that the individual headers are not official terms but merely invented expressions in an attempt to loosely categorize the different gag types.