Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soapy The O'Neills, who sired Malarkey with Griggs last spring in a pet over the sameness of radio's patriotic messages. The Office of War Information decided last fortnight that Malarkey was sufficiently obnoxious to deserve a wider audience. He will soon be drawn as a cartoon character, under OWI auspices...
Died. Charles Henry ("Bill") Sykes, 60, editorial cartoonist of Philadelphia's Evening Public Ledger from its birth (1914) to its death (last January), onetime cartoonist for the old Life magazine; of a heart attack; in Cynwyd, Pa. William Jennings Bryan once asked him for an original cartoon Sykes had drawn of him; Sykes sent it, with a note: "Cartoonists all over the country secretly admire you . . . because without you our work would be much more difficult...
...This month readers were discovering a new wrinkle in literary digestion. The Book-of-the-Month Club announced a new literary short cut for those who wish to read books, but not whole books. Through King Features Syndicate, the Club will release its best-sellers in the form of cartoon strips: 24-30 cartooned installments per novel, with 500 words of text under each strip (about one-fifteenth of the published novel). The first cartoonovel is Anna Segher's The Seventh Cross, story of an escape from a Nazi concentration camp...
Whoever wrote this Japanese caption for the cartoon did not do a good job of it, for the text actually says: "For Our Birthday present, find out the name of the country that bombed Japan." Which makes it anything but a piece of effective propaganda, and sounds ridiculous, if I may say so, because every Japanese must know which country bombed Japan...
...press rushed to the fore the gaunt, sourpuss, frock-coated figure of Old Man Prohibition. One cartoon showed him with a dishonorable discharge (1933) in his pocket, squatting under an umbrella in the halls of Congress; the heading said: "Tenting on the old Camp Ground!" (see cut, p. 23). He pointedly reminded Americans of their "noble experiment." To jar further the memories of the forgetful, the New York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed...