Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartoonist Hershfield's contract with King Features expired Dec. 31, was not renewed. Welcomed, with some surprise, by Macfadden, Hershfield signed a two-year contract for a daily cartoon and a daily colyum called "If I'm Wrong, Sue Me." When King Features saw that he proposed to call his Graphic character "A. Kabibble," it accepted the invitation, threatened suit for an injunction on the ground that Abie Kabibble?character and name?was its property. Cartoonist Hershfield changed his character's name to "Meyer the Buyer" and grimly prepared to fight...
...City sat in glum silence. Behind a great table, in the capacity of New York's Chief Magistrate, sat crippled, smiling Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before him stood a great barrel of a man with a soup-bowl haircut and cutaway, who looked like a slightly modernized political cartoon by the late Thomas Nast. He was Thomas M. ("Big Tom") Farley...
There is an excellent "Silly Symphony", which takes as its musical background an old-time hit of program-music called "A Hunt in the Black Forest". Its companion-piece on old phonograph records, "In a Clock Store", is the basis for the cartoon now playing at the Fine Arts...
...rival Saks Fifth Avenue which gladly carries charge accounts. Right across the Avenue from Saks was a wooden fence, hiding Radio City's excavation. On it Miss Fishback saw the familiar slogan: "POST NO BILLS." Out of her observation came an advertisement headed "Macy Propaganda invades Fifth Avenue." A cartoon made the scene of the invasion unmistakable...
...Cartoon of a fat female, rear view, at a railway ticket window. She: "Can I get my trunks off on this train?" Agent: "I doubt it, lady...