Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certified hypnotist. Hypnotize me, Dilbert Cartoonist...
...complaint was first lodged by Dean Wilson, a historian and cartoonist working for the Cambridge Candle, a small city newspaper. Wilson was opposed to the law, saying that it would "adversely affect small businesses," such as newspapers...
...decade-old Onion began as an alternative college-town paper and still carries the usual movie reviews and futon advertisements. Editor Scott Dikkers, 33, worked as a cartoonist during the publication's first year (he did three strips in three styles under three names, just so nobody would think the Onion had just one cartoonist), then bought the paper after a year from its founders. "For a long time we were kind of a Weekly World News parody combined with your usual sophomoric college-humor publication," says Dikkers. The moment of epiphany came in 1995, when, as Dikkers now says...
DIED. REG SMYTHE, 80, industrious British cartoonist who sketched the ne'er-do-well Andy Capp for more than 40 years; in Hartlepool, England. It was a comic strip sprung from the heart: Smythe patterned the beer-guzzling, bumptious bloke and his long-suffering wife Flo on his parents. Although Capp spoke in the vernacular of working-class northern England, his chatter had universal appeal, enlivening the funny pages in dozens of countries...
Suffering and failure are at the core of The Simpsons, which was created by newspaper cartoonist Matt Groening as crudely drawn filler material for the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, then went weekly in 1990. A Honeymooners with kids, the series features a man in a deadening blue-collar job (Homer, the nuclear-plant safety inspector), his epochally exasperated wife (Marge of the mountainous blue hair) and three conflicted kids. Bart, 10, is clever and cunning but addled in class; Lisa, 8, is a near genius whose intelligence deprives her of friends; year-old Maggie expresses frazzled wisdom beyond...