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...Missouri, a politician once told a staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I could answer your editorials, but what can you 'do with that guy who draws cartoons?'' That guy is lean (5 ft. 11½ in., 126 Ibs.) trimly tailored Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, 62, whose drawings in broad charcoal-black strokes have probably been more widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines than any other editorial cartoonist in the U.S. This week, with explanatory notes by "Fitz," the best of his cartoon commentary on the last three decades of U.S. history was published for the first...
From his first cartoon for the P-D 40 years ago (an attack on wooden railroad coaches showing a train of coffin-shaped cars rounding a bend of track) to his poignant chronicle of the Depression (a beaten, slumped worker standing in front of a soup kitchen-"One Person Out of Ten") and his savage jabs at the Republican campaign (McCarthy, Cain and Jenner waiting at the stage entrance to go on in a show called "Ike's Crusade"), Fitz has drawn with power and simplicity...
...Distillery. Fitz's day in his office off the P-D city room begins with his feet up on his desk, a pad of copy paper in his lap. He sometimes makes many rough drafts before he gets what he likes, often keys his cartoons in with P-D editorial campaigns, and frequently consults the paper's editors for ideas and suggestions. "The whole process of creating a cartoon," he explains, "is one of distillation. All the mash of information and detail bubbles and boils around. The first run should disclose the subject. Then it is redistilled until...
Fitz is free to say what he wants, and this P-D contract provides that he never has to draw a cartoon that doesn't represent his full conviction. In 1936, when the mercurial P-D decided to support Alf Landon, Fitz a resolute F.D.R. man, served notice that he would draw no political cartoons, and drew none. He also stayed away from politics in 1948, when the P-D backed Dewey, but he was hand in hand with the paper again in supporting Stevenson in 1952. His own favorite cartoons are chiefly political. Among them (see cuts...
Peter Pan. Walt Disney's lighthearted, feature-length cartoon adaptation of J. M. Barrie's fantasy (TIME...