Carl Barks and the Calgary Eye Opener
- ️Steve Ortman
Carl Barks and the Calgary Eye Opener
Before Carl Barks started to draw his Ducks he worked for the Calgary Eye Opener which was a men orientented magazine and featured a lot of sexually and racially discriminating jokes. Even Carl Barks drew some of them and they can certainly not be considered politically correct in today's definintion. Still they are funny and most of them can be seen as the starting point of Carl Barks' masterpiece incorporated in the Ducks. Hamiltion Comics published a selection of his cartoons from the Calgary Eye Opener featuring a foreword from Art Spiegelmann and the text from one of the most acclaimed critical writers of Carl Barks' Disney comics in the Barks Library, Geoffrey Blum. The edition is called "The Unexpurgated Carl Barks" and for possible ordering please contact the Bruce Hamilton Company at http://www.brucehamilton.com.
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