Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levitation, until now just a cartoonist's gag, a magician's stunt or a children's trick, gained medical respectability last week with the publication of "the case of the flying pig" in The Lancet, most eminent of medical journals...
...seemed to make it a point to disagree about everything. Then one day at the clothing store, young Gropper did a series of political caricatures that someone took to Garret Garrett, assistant editor of the old New York Tribune. Gropper soon found himself a full-fledged cartoonist making $40 a week. When he became enraptured by the Redlining I.W.W., the Tribune dropped him, but by then he was established. He worked for every sort of publication, from the New Masses to Spur, from Dial to Vanity Fair, where the aristocratic Frank Crowninshield fondly called him "Comrade Bill...
...Such impersonality was unbearable to Gropper: "I need to find the human element the way I need to find a friend." Strangely, after the long reign of the abstractionists, Cropper's work looks not like a set of period pieces but like something almost new. In him, the cartoonist, the caricaturist and the artist are jumbled up together, and sometimes the cartoonist overrides the artist...
...week later, several Crimeds combined to publish, edit and distribute a successful parody of the Yale Dally News. While in the front of the building a member of the Business Board arranges a special Christmas advertising promotion, in the rear a photo editor prepares a feature. While a cartoonist ponders over a possible topic, another staff member arranges the CRIMSON's next Faculty Dinner...
...lopsided little men that Thurber doodled. It was not until Harper & Brothers had paid good money for Thurber's drawings (in the E. B. White-Thurber parody, Is Sex Necessary?) that Ross gave in, and up. He paid good money for the drawings, even defended them when a cartoonist complained about "that fifth-rate artist." Ross was severe. "Third-rate," he corrected...