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George Prices' collection, "We Buy Old Gold," is a selection from Price's work of the last six years. He too takes the everyday situation, but is 'more existence. Typical of this type of cartoon is the man on the motorcycle receiving gas and oil at the filling station, with one attendant wiping his goggles...
...Krokodils's" contention is that, according to the writing in the upper left hand of the cartoon, The leadership of the educational and scholarly activities of the institutions of higher learning in the United States falls more and more into the hands of the military." The magazine goes on to note that Harvard's educational council "contains ten generals...
Most American comedy zigzags its merry way between a spoofing irreverence and a spanking incongruity. At times, it darts down the side streets of satire; often it winds up in the zany alleys of fantasy. At its pithy best, the comic cartoon can do all these things at once. Three cartoon books by the pithiest practitioners of this minor art have appeared just in time to tickle the fun-loving Christmas trade...
...more of the same, The New Yorker reportedly pays Arno at the rate of $1,000 for a full-page cartoon. As he makes clear in a short introduction, it is blood & sweat money. Always a deadline worker, Arno lashes himself through grueling 24-and 36-hour stints. Credited with inventing the one-line caption, Arno says: "I suppose it appealed to me particularly because my English grandfather . . . had taught me that brevity was the soul of wit-a surprising maxim to come from a lifelong reader of Punch...
...Operation. Nutty as a fruit cake to all but his ardent fans is Virgil Franklin Partch II (pen name: VIP). Even when seen, a Partch cartoon can hardly be believed. "Guess Who," reads the caption under a domestic scene in which the not-so-little woman has sneaked up on her man from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect...