Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cartoonist Harold T. Webster doesn't own a television set, has never seen a Milton Berle show, and would rather play bridge than watch Faye Emerson, plunging neckline and all. Yet his once-a-week cartoon, The Unseen Audience, has made him one of the nation's best and best-known critics of radio & television...
...Murphy's comrade in arms, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin plays a young soldier who takes everything with deadly seriousness-from a fistfight in which not a blow is struck to the shattering moment when he and Murphy overhear a general describe their regiment as worthless, just before giving the boys a pep talk and ordering them to attack. With no more continuity or plot than the battle it describes, Red Badge is mostly memorable for its tight vignettes of human confusion. It ends on an appropriately ironic note: the jubilant regiment, having driven back the Confederates, learns that its hard...
Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
...Alice's Wonderland had a railroad, it would probably look like the "Far Twittering and Oysterperch," which for years has been chuffing through the pages of Punch. Under the management of its founder, Cartoonist Rowland Emett, its carriages are apt to be outhouses, its locomotives are overgrown with vines and their mechanism recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which...
...first big Hogarth exhibition in London in more than 100 years. Nobody in Britain seemed able to explain the long oversight for sure. Roland Beckett, art historian and Hogarth expert, suspected it was the old trouble: "People think of him as a mere cartoonist...