Basically, all the characters in funny animal stories are parodies of real living creatures, because they are drawn in special and exaggerated ways with peculiar and maybe rubbery faces and strange and sometimes impossible movements. Still, they always seem right to us for their universe. This page will show you a fraction of the characters that Carl Barks took under his loving care as pure parodies.

You will have no trouble finding many more parodies among Barks' characters for yourself; these are only a few examples of his inventiveness...

GENERAL PARODIES
Barks drew all different kinds of specific character groups more than once, and he usually took great care to vary their individual faces and overall demeanour, yet his intention was always to choose the most 'recognizable' version of each character group, i.e. the one character in each group who best resembles the readers' expectations on how the particular character should look.
Politician and Voter	College Students	Door to Door Salesman
MRS. HERBERT ... and Husband	Butler	Real Estate Agent
Millionaires	Fashion Freaks
African Tribal Chief	Mexicans (Sorry, Mexico!)	Ballet Master
Journalists	Auctioneer	American Holiday Makers (Sorry, USA!)
Film Director	Car Dealer	Spinster
Newspaper Boy	Dictator	South Sea Tribal Chief
Body-builder	Mayor	Military Officer
Diner Owner	Tycoon	Lawyer
Professors		Decoration Fop
Russian (Sorry, Russia!)	Baseball Player	American Tourists Abroad
Snobs	Waiter	Superhero(!)

SPECIFIC PARODIES
Barks would, from time to time, parody well known people or fictional characters. In this exclusive little group you are presented with Barks' special names for his version of well known people followed by the original name.
Jayne Girlsfield Actress Jayne Mansfield	(Donald) Goldilocks (fairy tale)	Frank Bucko Animal hunter Frank Buck
Snarlin Grando Actor Marlon Brando	Doctor Livingstump Explorer Dr. Livingstone	Scotland X. McYard Sherlock Holmes (novels and short stories)
Mr. and Mrs. van Astorbilt Millionaire Families Astor and Vanderbilt	Brigitte van Doren Actress Brigitte Bardot	(Donald) Rip van Winkle (short story)
Gina Luluduckita (Magica) Actress Gina Lollobrigida	Noble X. Ample FBI director J. Edgar Hoover	Fulldrip Pulpbugle Carl Barks(!)