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...cartoons syndicated to U.S. newspapers, few are more true to life than "The Neighbors." And few cartoonists work harder for realism than George Clark, 51, the short (5 ft. 6 in.), rumpled creator of "The Neighbors." Instead of a belly laugh, Humorist Clark tries for a smile, or at most a chuckle. This folksy, low-key humor has made the cartoon so popular that last week it was being syndicated to some 150 newspapers, from Manhattan's tabloid Daily News to the Sioux Falls (S. Dak.) Argus Leader. It is George Clark's fond hope that every reader...
Long before he won control of the New York Central management, Robert R. Young liked to scourge the "goddamned bankers" and attack railroad operators while he championed the poor, neglected passengers. Crusader Bob's most effective ploy was a cartoon of a pig. fat and sassy in his freight car, looking down on a bedraggled, luggage-laden human traveler and his family changing trains. Hooted the ad: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...
...years ago Walt Disney decided to produce the adventure story, Treasure Island, with live actors instead of animated cartoon characters. Then a year later he released his first film on nature using live animals instead of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Now Disney has tried to experiment again, this time by combining another favorite adventure tale for twelve year-olds with a sequence of scenes on The Living Sea. But the result is at best only mildly entertaining...
Animal Farm (Louis de Rochemont Associates). George Orwell's political fable, the famous animallegory about Communism, has been rendered as an animated cartoon, at feature length (75 minutes), by a team of 100 artists, working in Britain under the direction of John Halas, a Hungarian, and his wife Joy Batchelor. It was three years in the making-more than 300,000 colored drawings are assembled in the final print-and it has been made, in all technical respects, quite as good as good Disney. In every other sense the picture is about as remote from Mickey Mouse as Moscow...
Even after 26 years, the public eye has not wearied of watching Mickey Mouse. Of all the cartoon animals, only Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny are more popular today. In any event, Mickey is likely to be remembered, long after all the others are forgotten, for one decisive moment when he stood at the absolute center of human affairs. On June 6, 1944, the D-day of the Allied invasion of France, the code word for the entire Allied operation was "Mickey Mouse...