Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these alternatives is especially palatable for the members of the counterculture. In fact, they represent the end of much of the movement's dream. In that dilemma, some straight jobs have become acceptable. "Driving cabs is the In thing for hippies right now in New York," says the underground cartoonist Mad John Peck. In Berkeley, the freaks have formed their own cab company, and the cabs are psychedelically painted bombs navigated solely by longhairs. Being a letter carrier is also acceptable, and mailmen with Prince Valiant cuts abound. Some straight newspapers like the Boston Globe have allowed invasions of freak...
There is a vital difference between black humor and antic violence. Dark comedy requires a point of view, plus a consistent thread of absurdity that allows the audience to suspend belief. Writer-Cartoonist Jules Feiffer does not lack a point of view, but in his first screenplay, Little Murders, the thread of absurdity snaps so often that the film becomes little more than a succession of insane horrors...
...grade classroom in Los Angeles. "A teacher spotted my drawings in the margin of a textbook and sent me to the principal," he recalls. "The principal said, 'What's to become of you?' and I said, 'Well, I'm going to be a sports cartoonist.' " He learned lettering as a department store artist, and after an apprenticeship of cleaning paste pots and doing layout retouching for various newspapers became a semiregular cartoonist for the sports section of the old Los Angeles Herald. The New York World-Telegram hired him in 1935, and for three...
Resentments. By all odds the best of U.S. sports cartoonists, Mullin is currently having his first one-man show on Long Island (a Mullin also hangs in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art). Eight times he has been voted best U.S. sports cartoonist and in 1954 was awarded the "Reuben" as the best of all cartoonists in the country. Later this month, the National Cartoonists Society will honor him as "Sports Cartoonist of the Century." Then Mullin will retreat to virtual retirement in Florida and do only "whatever work climbs up on my drawing board that...
...Cartoonist Goldberg achieved fame for a series of wildly complicated inventions that today can be seen as a prediction of the world's foundering in technology. Goldberg's contraptions used owls and trumpets to nominate people for political office, pistols and crows to feed an infant and rock its cradle. There was even a Hitler-kicking machine that gave the Führer his comeuppance via a cat, a mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia...