 The name of the strip is a portmanteau, referring to the East German Karl-Marx-Stadt (currently known as Chemnitz) and the cartoonist Carl Barks.In the turn of the year 2006–2007, "Helsingin Sanomat" was looking for a new Finnish comic strip to its pages, and the newspaper's comics editor Eeva Lepistö turned her attention to "Karl-Barks-Stadt".The strip, now renamed "Fingerpori", started appearing in "Helsingin Sanomat" on 5 February 2007.