Word: cartoonist
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People no longer hesitate to confess that they simply do not like to drive-an admission that would have been treated as an aberration a few years ago. Some former auto commuters like Pulitzer-Prizewinning Cartoonist Herblock explain that they swore off the gas when they realized that they were incurably bad drivers. "I was just too tense or too relaxed to drive well," says Herblock (real name: Herbert Block), whose cartoons occasionally picture autos as demented beasts. Who could be censured for preferring the luxury of a chauffeured limousine, particularly if someone else is footing the bill...
ALMOST FIFTY YEARS after the first Popeye cartoon, director Robert Altman and cartoonist-author-screenwriter Jules Feiffer have adapted the sailor to another medium--that of the musical-comedy feature film--using real people instead of animated figures. When such heavies team up with a talent like manic Robin Williams to interpret a piece of American folklore, the result ought to transcend the original material. Instead, they produce a faithful if restrained reproduction of the cartoon version--and somewhat of a disappointment...
Marlette came to Harvard this year as the first political cartoonist ever to be granted a Nieman Fellowship. Now the staff political cartoonist for the Charlotte Observer--a respected and liberal (at least for the South) daily--Marlette grew up in the South, in places like Greensboro, N.C., where he was born, and Laurel, Miss., where he did most of his growing up. And it was in the small towns of the South that Marlette learned the values that provide the subtext for his cartoons: the idea that the Constitution and the Sermon on the Mount amount to more than...
MARLETTE ENJOYS working for the Observer. "I would trust my editors to do right," he says, "more so than, say, the editors of the Washington Post." Yet there have been inevitable problems being a Left (and I will use that label even if Marlette won't) cartoonist in the middle of the Bible Belt. "After a year or two at the Observer," Marlette says, "my editors were getting a lot of pressure from the powers that be. What were they doing allowing this kid to come into Charlotte with both guns blazing?" Partly in response to this uproar, the editors...
DIED. John Fischetti, 64, Pulitzer-prizewinning political cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times whose acerbic drawings championed the downtrodden citizen while satirizing the mighty; of heart disease; in Chicago. The son of a barber in Brooklyn's Little Italy, Fischetti derived the title of his 1973 autobiography, Zinga, Zinga, Zal, from a cousin, who used the phrase to answer virtually all questions. "For me," wrote Fischetti, "the point of a political cartoonist is to take some of the zing out of the zinga, zinga...