Word: cartoonist
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DIED. KAROLJ SELES, 64, Yugoslav cartoonist who nurtured and safeguarded the phenomenal tennis talents of his daughter Monica from her early success through the 1993 stabbing that debilitated her to her dramatic 1995 comeback; of stomach cancer; in Sarasota...
Lately, Nike bashing has become a spectator sport. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lambasted the company in his Doonesbury strip. Filmmaker Michael Moore featured Knight in his latest excoriation of corporate America, The Big One. Nike has been accused of bigfooting its way into soccer and despoiling academics by paying the University of North Carolina to wear its wares. A long-standing criticism is that it uses extravagantly paid endorsers to sell overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids. The company has been tarred by an image as a sweatshop operator that exploits Asian workers who make shoes and apparel for Nike subcontractors...
DIED. ANTONIO PROHIAS, 77, Cloak-and-dagger cartoonist who sketched the antics of Spy vs. Spy in Mad magazine; in Miami...
Thus it is that "Scud: The Disposable Assassin," an independent comic written and drawn by cartoonist Rob Schrab, is one of the latest comics to emerge from the comics underground into the glare of Hollywood's scrutiny. Creator Schrab attributes Scud's success to what he calls its multimedia appeal and its "surrealistically" funky style--both of which were probably factors in drawing Stone's attention in the first place...
...Monday comedies are probably more similar than any four shows that have ever appeared in succession in the history of television. Suddenly Susan, Fired Up, Caroline in the City and The Naked Truth all feature urban, single women who work in the media: magazine writer, marketing executive, cartoonist and tabloid-newspaper reporter. So far, the outcome of the Monday-night battle is still in doubt...