Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because U. S. voters take their political cartoons in small daily doses, they rarely get a mass impression of the entire crop during one national campaign. If they could view the full output for the 1936 election, many of them would probably be either discouraged at the low estate of politics as material for caricature or depressed at the downward course of the old art of cartooning. Significant was the fact that the Pulitzer Prize committee last May found not a single cartoon worthy of its $500 award...
Only one crackerjack new cartoonist has emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered...
After 24 years with the Saturday Evening Post, Herbert Johnson displays a belief in the righteousness of U. S. Business and the Republican Party as unwavering as the lines of his workmanlike cartoons. Once he pictured "Government in Business" as a banyan tree whose roots curled out to strangle honest enterprise. He liked the idea, improved on it in a second cartoon by turning the banyan tree into an octopus named "New Deal...
Governor Curley again made political capital out of the name "Harvard" when he issued a "severe rap" at the Lampoon and the Crimson in rallies last night. Citing a Lampoon cartoon entitled "Curley Addresses His Puritan Ancestors" as illustrative of how Harvard felt toward the "ordinary man" (His Excellency acting in the capacity of "ordinary man") he went on to quote the remarks of a Square merchant in Friday's Crimson on President Roosevelt's ride down Mass Avenue...
Last week young New Yorkers enrolled in a Landon First Voters League indicated that they had missed either the New Yorker cartoon or its point when they organized a "Victim of Future Taxes" unit, sent out a "Barrel Show" to tour the city and Eastern college campuses. Doing their bit in the current GOP campaign to persuade the nation that Franklin Roosevelt is somehow to blame for local, municipal, county and State as well as Federal taxes, a young man and three professional women models appear in garments from which parts of sleeves, skirts, crowns and toes have been scissored...