and daisy duck was modeled on his own wife. that's not my personal interpretation but based on what his wife lucy taliaferro said. in the late one nine hundred fifty s. a disney cartoonist earned six dollars and forty six cents an hour which was more than the average income in america at the time but hardly a fortune considering the huge revenue generated by the disney empire income for which cartoonist carl barks was partly responsible he created disney's scrooge mcduck. today artists like younger bronson have taken over drawing disney's iconic cartoon characters to use a pencil and paint just like in the good old days ninety years ago even after all this time the characters of lost none of their appeal thanks in part to all those hard working illustrators employed by disney. our next stop is the who a valley in the west and germany for me it's a trip back home before i moved to berlin alist and gone for a long time that it's a coal mining the city. today most of the mines have closed but the spirit of the industry mates. once