1940s
1946 |
This drawing was made for comic strip artist Al Capp's contest to draw the world's ugliest woman. In his comic 'Li'l Abner', Capp introduced a woman named Lena the Hyena whose face was never seen but who was referred to as the world's ugliest woman. Readers got more and more curious as to what she looked like, so Capp invited various artists to draw their version of the elusive character. Barks was one of them but he didn't win. The judges of the contest were Salvador Dali, Boris Karloff, and Frank Sinatra. |
1948 |
This
cartoon appeared on the front page of the local newspaper
'San Jacinto Valley Register' in October 1948. The explanatory text reads: |
1949 |
Barks drew
two political cartoons for a former Hemet resident who
had a dispute with the town's mayor about the legality of
landing helicopters in the city of Palos Verdes,
California. The mayor is portrayed as a stubborn goat. The poster text reads: (The second cartoon was published the following year.) |
http://www.cbarks.dk/theuniquedrawings1940s.htm | Date 2004-03-17 |