Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another cartoonist, Norris has created a family: George Phelps, his wife and children, including Filbert, a chillingly destructive child. In one cartoon, Mrs. Phelps is shown applying for a job as a civilian-defense volunteer, with Filbert stealthily preparing a dynamite charge to blow up the office, and another child-at the end of a leash-growling savagely at a terrified dog. Asks the startled clerk: "And you say you have experience with riots, first aid, salvage and repair, a knowledge of weapons and nothing but contempt for the atom bomb...
...Best cartoon: Fred Quimby's Two Mousketeers...
...cloud of an atomic-bomb explosion rose over scenes of destruction, flint-faced firing squads in U.S. uniforms, crucified and gibbeted North Koreans. At the left stood a benign Stalin, filially flanked by a boyish Mao Tse-tung, who held out the Red dove of peace to three glum cartoon villains-a gun-toting, Bible-clutching Uncle Sam, a fist-clenching John Bull, and a somewhat hung-over Marianne...
...heart as in his mind. He has long ago given up his parents' Jewish religion and has often been on the point of becoming a Roman Catholic. (His two sons, 11 and 13, were confirmed last month in his wife's Episcopal church.) He keeps a favorite cartoon on his office wall to kid his strong views on the need for religion (see cut). Once, after a particularly forceful lecture in San Francisco, a woman asked him whether he could have made an equally strong argument for the opposite proposition. "That," sighed Adler, "is the first sensible question...
Chesterton's friend Nicolas Bentley believed that if G.K. had become "a decorative draughtsman" instead of a writer, "he would have had very few equals." Many of his numerous drawings have perished; but the sharpness of his talent may be glimpsed in a cartoon entitled "WHEN THE REVOLUTION HAPPENS: Bernard Shaw Refuses to Drink the Blood of Aristocrats on Vegetarian Principles and out of Kindness to the Lower Animals." This work is not only a splendid parody of Daumier, it is also an example of Chesterton's genius for translating his gravest opinions into...