Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four canvases and pieces of sculpture were on view. In general critics from Manhattan were inclined to agree with their Chicago confreres. Jurymen Lloyd Goodrich, Waldo Peirce and Henry Varnum Poor awarded the $500 Frank G. Logan prize to pretty Doris Lee of Woodstock. N. Y. for an animated cartoon of U. S. farm life entitled Thanksgiving. In an old-fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables, a naughty child tosses...
...strings like ordinary marionettes but by invisible human hands which change the puppets' positions and expressions between each film exposure. It took 25 separate shots, for example, to show a puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population of Lilliputia, the puppets in The New Gulliver are about three inches high. Their tiny faces, designed by Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into three dimensions. Creased...
...back page of the Tuesday "American" carries a cartoon depicting Uncle Same deaf to the entreaties of two sharp-nosed individuals labelled conspicuously "Meddler" and "Busybody". Page 5 of the same issue prints the headline "Attack on constitution taught Harvard students" There follows a garbled but strong criticism, of Harold Brogan's "Government of the People", the text now in use in Government 1: of Professor Holcombe; and of Professor Laski, the author of the foreword. All are accused of spreading subversive and communistic doctrines among the students...
...tying up the great project with a happy mouth, but referring to it always as Boulder Dam, the Times accepted it like a shot and suspended its holy vow for that day. But it promptly returned to its own Republican nomenclature the following morning and recently it carried a cartoon showing Uncle Sam rather pitifully reminding the President again that the name is Hoover, not Boulder. The cartoonist, apparently a defeatist, depicted the President as oblivious of the request...
...Advocate has kept a clean legal record so far in its history except for one issue in 1925 which was banned because of a cartoon which appeared in a parody of the magazine "Dial...