Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DEAR SOOKY-Percy Crosby-Putnam's Sons ($2.50). LITTLE BLACK STORIES FOR LITTLE WHITE CHILDREN-Blaise Cendrars- Payson & Clarke ($2). Dear Sooky includes letters written by Cartoonist Percy Crosby's famed U. S. small boy Skippy (TIME, May 20) to his poor friend Sooky. Crosby illustrations are plentiful. Skippy relates his first airplane ride and his first love, now caustically, now saccharinely. He signs himself "affectionately sincere." Little Black Stories have been bandied around African firesides by big black boys and girls for centuries. The book is a smash hit with French children and adults. Here rhythmically translated...
Three years ago, Edgar Kaufmann, on culture bent, decided to remodel his store. He scoured the U. S. for a good draughtsman, found Boardman Robinson, painter-cartoonist, asked him for a set of murals expressing the history of commerce. Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse for painting was to subserve architecture and had applied himself to that problem. Delightedly he accepted the commission, but reserved the right to be his own master at all times, to make his own designs, be left alone. Mr. Kaufmann agreed...
...Briand, typifies the cartoonist's Frenchman. Yet Gustav Stresemann was the first German to be entertained officially in France for 59 years. Said the semi-official Temps last week...
...regard itself as investor in many companies but as manager of none, such a position would certainly be statistically sound. The fact that so powerful a financial institution has become actively interested in utilities may be disconcerting to opponents of privately controlled light and power systems. But only a cartoonist could attempt to personify Mr. Morgan as Big Utility Goblin...
...Cartoonist Art Young writes about cartoons with illustrations from his own work. Says he: "If a public man is fat and his nose is long, good caricature in the opinion of some caricaturists is to magnify these characteristics very much?to pile Pelion on Ossa. To others the natural is almost funny enough...