Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saul Steinberg is surely the best cartoonist since Picasso. Picasso was an artist who degenerated into a cartoonist. Steinberg is a cartoonist who has metamorphosed into an artist. The difference between them is intellectual honesty. Viva Steinberg...
...Cartoonist Claire Bretécher carves up poseurs and hypocrites...
...Observateur. For four years now, Les Frustrés has been comic-stripping the hypocrisy from everyday life among the thinking classes. In the process, Bretécher has become a financially secure woman, a cult figure among the trendy Parisians she skewers, and probably the most important French cartoonist never to be heard...
...magazines. Among those early Bretéchers were Turnips in the Cosmos, a sci-fi epic, and Cellulite, the saga of a husband-hunting medieval princess. Publisher Claude Perdriel was impressed by some of her more satirical strips, and in 1974 offered her the newly vacant job of regular cartoonist at his Nouvel Observateur. "I submitted my work on the condition that they did not require me to hang around for a lot of conferences and that they did not censor me," Bretécher recalls. To test Perdriel's sincerity, she drew as her first effort a saucy...
...very few American graphic artists to have done so; not even the big popular illustrators of earlier years, N.C. Wyeth or Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell or Charles Dana Gibson, can quite bear that claim. Esquire magazine's design director, Milton Glaser, sees Steinberg as a cartoonist who "by some extraordinary series of shifts became a major artist ... It is very hard to truthfully understand what happened to him on the way, not only in terms of self-transformation but in terms of how the audience saw that transformation ? so that he could keep working as a literary and social...