Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Holt & Co. paid him $5,000 advance on Up Front (it is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice) and Ladies' Home Journal paid him $10,000 for the rights to publish Ladies'-Home-Journalized. excerpts. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 1944's best cartoon. In Italy last week, at a ceremony crowded with brass hats, Bill Mauldin was presented with the Legion of Merit...
...Bruce Bairnsfather's "Old Bill," best-known cartoon soldier of World War I ("Well, if yer knows of a better 'ole, go to it"), is the spiritual uncle of Mauldin's Willie...
...walrus-moustached, bloated Colonel Blimp of the David Low cartoon is associated with the Cliveden set of umbrella-toting appeasers, with the narrow selfishness that, along with other attributes, is labeled fascist. Cinema's Colonel Blimp is less bitterly presented, and while he is frequently laughed at he's not a bad sort...
...first day at school, 5-year-old Peter Mathews was annoyed by the nice lady who asked him strange questions and made him put blocks in holes. After the lady decided which group he belonged in, things began to seem better. On the second day, a Mickey Mouse cartoon telling how to pronounce the alphabet, a play session with model airplanes, and a telecast of Mother Goose songs ushered Peter into the wonderful audio-visual-tactual routine that was to keep him fascinated during all eight years of studying the "Common Learnings." At first he disliked being...
...time his second great war is upon him, Blimp is the grand old lobster of the cartoon, angry, hurt and bewildered to find his age and his military experience in disesteem. The crowning blow comes when sharp young men of the new Army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that...