March 27

Carl Barks was born on the 27th in 1901. He was with Walt Disney Studios as an illustrator and comic book creator. He was the creator of Scrooge McDuck. Have you seen The Raiders of the Lost Ark? If so, you must remember the rolling boulder booby trap scene. If you don’t remember it, rent the movie because it is a very good scene. Both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have acknowledged that they got the idea for that particular scene from Carl Barks’ 1954 cartoon featuring Uncle Scrooge McDuck in The Seven Cities of Cibola.