Word: caniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words-now stimulating, now baffling-about Chinese art, philosophy, politics and paradox, mixed in with gang fights, raids, a U.S. hero and heroine and hissing Japanese spies. Novelist Cahill's polar north lies somewhere between André Malraux's Man's Fate and Cartoonist Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but lacks the invigorating climate of either...
...Caniff's new five-year contract with Marshall Field calls for a $2,000-a-week minimum. The Field organization was not equipped to sell the new strip nationally, so left-winger Field, who shudders at William Randolph Hearst on his editorial page, made a deal with the old lord of San Simeon. For selling Steve Canyon, Hearst's King Features Syndicate got first rights to run the new strip in all Hearst papers outside Chicago (including the tabloid Mirror in New York, instead of Field's small...
Retooling for Steve. In the airy, book-lined studio at New City, Milton Caniff cleared away the oriental props that had served Terry. The morgue was crammed with Americana, for a change of scene: state guides, the Rivers series, hundreds of photographs of city streets and airports. Marshall Field, no comics expert, had no advice to give, but Caniff knew what the publishers and readers wanted: a strip with all the thrills of Terry and nearly all the sexiness of Lace rolled into...
...Caniff plotted his new characters as carefully as any fiction writer. "The guy, now, had to have a name that would stick," Caniff explained. "It had to be three syllables, Dead-eye-Dick, or John-Paul-Jones. . . . Steve-Canyon. Not a real name, or one you could turn into a dirty word. But a guy who'd have a girl in every port, and could do all the things that a youngster like Terry couldn't. Why, Terry couldn't even smoke. And with people in the Orient we couldn't use those casual, normal insults...
Beginning his new strip, Caniff was confident and cool: "It's almost a mathematical equation," he said. "If I don't know my trade by now, I'd better quit...