Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medieval builders and carving some unconventional gargoyles? Great idea, replied Verlaan. He suggested something "eternal"-comic strip characters, perhaps. The delighted sculptor went off to work, within three months hacked out 23 stone figures copied from the cartoons of Hollywood's Walt Disney and from a popular Dutch cartoonist named Maarten Toonder. Among his figures were Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, the wisest of the Three Little Pigs, and a Big (six feet tall) Bad Wolf...
Soon all of Arnhem, and half of Holland, was talking about the gargoyles. Cartoonist Toonder wrote in to suggest that his copyright was being infringed. At last report, no protest had arrived from Disney, and Arnhem's burgomaster thought the affair more funny than vulgar. go right ahead, he told Verlaan after trudging topside for a look. That was just enough to spur Sculptor Vreeling on to greater artistic heights. Not far from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Vreeling is happily at work carving another stone figure: a dragon peeping out from a mushroom-shaped cloud. The dragon...
...bleak news of prison life in the brightest voice it can muster, and it encourages prisoners to work toward rehabilitation. But most Journal readers share a common misery that goes untouched by such institutional cheer. Lately they have found a wry spokesman in the Journal's superb cartoonist, Prisoner 69652, Sammy Reese, murderer...
...Once in prison, he organized art classes. Soon Reese and his students were exhibiting (and winning prizes) in outside art shows. When cramped quarters caused the classes to be stopped, Reese asked for a few months in solitary confinement. In the company of his own thoughts. Reese became a cartoonist...
Clinton, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: The World of Jules Feiffer, a new revue with book by Cartoonist Feiffer, music and lyrics by West Side Story's Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, directed by Mike Nichols...