Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middlebrow Atlantic Monthly, the highbrows' lowbrow Cartoonist Al Capp confessed last week to a secret ambition-"to get published in something that won't be used to wrap fish in the next morning. And so, the other day, I was Writing a book." Its title: I Remember Monster. ("The first part" explained Al "is a memoir of my early days as assistant to a well-known cartoonist.") Under its tomfoolishness, Capp's article in the February issue of the Atlantic (cover by Capp) was a perceptive essay on Charlie Chaplin...
Washington's Corcoran Gallery, which prides itself on showing the best in modern American art, housed a newcomer last week. The debutant, a shy, gentle man with a Pinocchio-sized nose, was the Washington Post's cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block, 40. He had won a Pulitzer Prize (1942), but he'd never seen anything like this. Eyeing the 194 cartoons, all signed with the economy-size pen name (Herblock), one dowager gushed to Block: "There's a complete timelessness about your cartoons. They'll last, I think, for at least ten years...
This month, Herblock will add another laurel to his balding pate when the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection buys several cartoons from his Corcoran show. He will thus become the first U.S. living cartoonist in the Rosenwald group of prints and etchings. The only other: Britain's David Low (TIME...
...still is. Now syndicated to 150 other U.S. newspapers plus the European Herald Tribune, the Rome Daily American and the Manila Bulletin, Herblock is also the first cartoonist to appear in the weekly London Economist...
...combined paper quickly signed up the Sun's Drama Columnist Ward Morehouse, Sport Columnist Grantland Rice, Paragraphs H. I. ("Hi") Phillips. Columnist George Sokolsky* switched his column to Hearst's Journal-American; Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Rube Goldberg also jumped to the JA. Such by liners as Reporter Mike Johnson, 82-year-old Henry McBride, dean of U.S. art critics, and Washington Correspondent Phelps Adams would have little trouble landing jobs. But heartbroken Executive Editor Speed was "looking for a hobby," and most of the Sun's staff of 1,200 editorial, business and mechanical employees were looking...