Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mention a Negro in an adventure comic strip being rubbed out by the syndicate "for fear of offending Southern readers." In the humorous comic strips this censorship is done in fear of offending not Southern readers but Negro readers. Cartoons are caricatures meant to make people look and act funny. Negroes are now understandably touchy about being depicted thus, so there are very few Negro cartoon characters (other than savages and primitives, and the syndicates have started clamping down on these because of the new African countries). So the cartoonist finds himself in a dilemma. If he omits Negroes from...
...above the frame's edge. In Eighth Avenue Snow Scene, the street juts out in a stage set to frame kids pranking while a gross, pipe-puffing man in galoshes and a checkered coat ambles by through the Styrofoam snow in wood-cutout make-believe. Grooms's cartoon vision stems from reality. To do the snow scene, he sketched a Manhattan street corner during a blizzard until his fingers were stiff with cold...
Sugar & Spice. In 1948, Sparky sold his first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post: a smug little boy sitting on the end of a chaise longue with his feet propped on a footstool. Not long after, Sparky was hired to do a weekly cartoon panel that ran wherever the editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press could find room for it. Called Li'I Folks, the panel included some forerunners of Peanuts, but it was doomed. After turning it out for nearly a year, Sparky asked the editor for more money. His answer: "No." Then how about giving...
...very skeptical of Johnson's bill which has all the carmarks of a great big boondoggle, something for everyone. He believes in he great political game of give and get. That's what his War on Poverty amounts to." Rusher said that the poverty program reminded him of a cartoon he had seen of "two Cosa Nostra types sitting on a park bench." The caption was "Who do you think stands to score big from the War on Poverty?" Rusher smiled again. "Now don't write that to make me sound callous...
...animated cartoon series about a gregarious alley cat. Premi...