Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garry Trudeau, L.H.D.. cartoonist...
Like so many musicals, Raggedy Ann & Andy also has trouble with its book. The script-based on the original half-century-old stories and drawings by Indianapolis Newspaper Cartoonist Johnny Gruelle-plops Raggedy Ann and her brother into an all-engulfing taffy monster called the Greedy, and pits them against a pygmy king who levies jokes from his subjects the way other kings levy taxes...
Inevitably, the strange sight of the two ungainly aircraft, one on top of the other, inspired a steady stream of barnyard jokes. In the Los Angeles Times, Cartoonist Paul Conrad sketched the intertwined pair perched on a runway and captioned his drawing: "Not tonight, Dear, I have a headache...
...President's Men, and in the face of economic and political threats to the paper, proved Publisher Katharine Graham's courage. Hard to top all that-last year's exposure of Congressman Wayne Hays and his dolly seems much less momentous. Cartoonist Herblock is bereft without Nixon to kick around. The paper is suffering from post-Watergate blahs...
...cold December evening three years ago, a cartoonist for Le Canard Enchaîné, the satirical Paris weekly, happened to visit the new offices that the paper was about to occupy. He found a band of "plumbers" busily installing listening devices. On being discovered, the plumbers all fled, but the magazine filed a civil suit against the unidentified intruders, charging invasion of privacy...