Word: cartoonist
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Best known for his career at the WashingtonPost, Block coined such terms as "McCarthyism." Hebegan as an editorial page cartoonist for theChicago Daily News when...
...doubt, is unique; but some are more so than others, and Saul Steinberg, who died last week at 84, was very much so. There really was no one like him in the annals of American art. What was so remarkable about him was not his genius as a cartoonist or his qualities as a "fine" artist, but the way he combined both within the same body of work. He didn't flip between a serious and a funny side. Both were intrinsic to the same images, which entranced his audience for decades. But this also delayed his recognition...
DIED. SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 66, children's author, playwright, Playboy cartoonist and Oscar-nominated songwriter; of a heart attack; in Key West, Fla. Silverstein, who served in the Korean War, was best known for writing and illustrating mischievous, charmingly tasteless books of poetry for children (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic)--a career he never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several...
DIED. Saul Steinberg, 84, artist and cartoonist; in New York City (see THE ARTS...
...always commanded attention. Even as a first-grader, he would go over to neighbor kids' homes and crack jokes that made parents chuckle. He often sketched, and people thought he would one day be a cartoonist, maybe--something special. But no one was ready for Tom's next act. Not even...