Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kliban, cartoonist...
...prodigious number of Americans have become smitten with cats. Others continue to bad-mouth felines. Are cats stouthearted companions or unresponsive curmudgeons? Or are they, as Cartoonist Bernard Kliban suggested in his bestselling album Cat (1975), merely whimsical meat-loaves? While the fur flies in this battle, one cat gives folks a humorous peek at both armies in the controversy. The most famous feline to express this perplexing relationship between man and pet is Garfield, a comic-strip cat. His creator, Cartoonist Jim Davis, has three books on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, a first...
Were it only that, the public would deal with the cold with far less conversation, far less drama, and the cold sufferer would never have become one of the cartoonist's regular stock of sympathetic (and pathetic) figures. The fact is that over the generations the cold has grown to be, along with all else, a theatrical event, a psychological event, a social event-all transactions that would be undermined if people laid aside myths and paid too close attention to scientific truth...
THINGS BRIGHTEN CONSIDERABLY, but not enough to compensate, in the third play, The Lady or the Tiger by cartoonist Shel Silverstein. This is a neat sketch about a murderously overblown T.V. game show that climaxes in the Astrodome with the contestant, dressed as a gladiator, getting either the girl of his dreams and $12 million or a man-eating tiger ("flown in by Air India") and certain death. It's set in the office of the brash young producer, who faces, in turn, a huge black tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when...
...Rodin's fondness for making fragmentary figures, headless torsos, isolated arms or legs. But then one is reminded that this, in Rodin's own day, was ceaselessly guyed by satirists as literal mutilation; so much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia, one French cartoonist drew some observers in front of a hut festooned with severed limbs, exclaiming, "What fine models for Rodin!" Presumably this lopsided equation of the fictive violence of art with the real violence of history is meant to hover, in quotes, above Kitaj's nude; but it seems very contrived...