Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Burr Shafer, 65, cartoonist, whose wry historical satires (Says an innkeeper to a soldier: "And if you're not out by 12 o'clock, General Washington, I'll have to charge you for another day") moved President Harry Truman to write "I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get the point"; of a pulmonary embolism; in Orange, Calif...
...also an inspired director. He made Moliere's artificial little farce come alive and cohere like nothing I've seen since "The Beggar's Opera." He also constructed the masks in which the cast performs. They are the work of a master cartoonist...
...these choices; and final say rests with the trustees of Columbia University. In 1962, the trustees overruled an award to a biography of Hearst; in 1963, the advisory board turned down a prize for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This year no editorial cartoonist was deemed worthy of a prize, and no award was made for music because the advisory board nixed the selection of Jazz Musician Duke Ellington...
...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 his comics, he is discriminating against them, and if he includes them, he is ridiculing them...
...their services, the syndicates demand a high price: 50% of the strip's sales and usually a copyright, so that if the creator quits or dies, another cartoonist can be hired to carry on the work. On top of that, the syndicates exercise a censorship that is breathtaking. When Dale Messick included a Negro girl among a group of teenagers in Brenda Starr, the syndicate rubbed her out for fear of offending Southern readers. When Milt Caniff used the Air Force slang word abort (to cancel) in Steve Canyon, the syndicate figured it came too close to abortion...