Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...renominated Mr. Hoover and adopted a Wet platform at Chicago, the tall white-haired lady pointedly replied: "The President would have to take the consequences. That's all." This White House visitation prompted Rollin Kirby to produce for the New York World-Telegram a cartoon of the kind that made him famous: Mr. Hoover, hot and worried in his shirt sleeves, at an old fashioned tub scrubbing "Anti-Saloon Linen" while a severe old woman, her arms crossed, stands by to keep him at his job. Title: "Our Man!" ¶The temperature rose to 78° in Washington...
Through this grotesque panorama weaves a story telling how a beautiful trapeze artist (Olga Baclanova) came to be a freak who resembles a chicken. A midget (Harry Earle, who looks like a cartoon of Herbert Hoover) has a misguided passion for Baclanova. When she learns that he is rich, she tries to poison him. Swift & certain is the revenge of the Freaks, their faces sullen masks as they move silently through the underbrush, but you are not told how they make of Baclanova the legless, drivelling idiot that you see in the end. The featured players. Leila Hyams and Wallace...
...important date in the development of Thomas Nast as an artist. That week Sir John Tenniel published a biting cartoon in Punch on the subject of the Alabama Claims* showing the U. S. as a bloated Falstaff demanding £400,000,000 from the bearded Prince of Wales, Edward VII, as the price of his love. Plump Tommy Nast raged at the subject, but admired the technique. A month later he replied with a full page in Harpers Weekly of an even fatter John Bull Falstaff, drawn in the same manner. In this adaptation of the Tenniel technique he thereafter...
...Ring was broken. The Boss fled to Spain, a fugitive from justice. He was arrested in Vigo on the charge of "kidnapping two American children." This curious charge was explained by the fact that he was identified by a Spanish policeman from an old Nast cartoon that showed the Boss as a Tammany policeman collaring two small ragamuffins, labeled "Lesser Thieves." The Boss died in New York's Ludlow Street jail. In his luggage was every Nast cartoon ever drawn...
Thomas Nast invented most of the vocabulary of the U. S. political cartoon. He invented the figure of gaunt Uncle Sam, the Tammany Tiger (a reference to the tiger painted on the dashboard of Boss Tweed's old fire engine, now in the Museum of the City of New York), the Democratic Donkey and Republican Elephant. No other U. S. cartoonist has ever equaled his power, the strength of his line. Out of fashion for ten years before he died, he accepted the post of U. S. consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador from President Roosevelt, died at his post of yellow...