Word: cartoonist
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Spencer's marriage was troubled from the beginning. Sixteen months after the wedding, Spencer confessed to London's Daily Mail that he had had an affair with Tatler magazine cartoonist Sally Ann Lasson in Paris, "a second one-night stand, four years after the first." The move was intended as a pre-emptive strike against plans by News of the World to tell Lasson's account of the couple's trysts. In the midst of all this, Lockwood was battling anorexia, a condition, it appears, Spencer did not always deal with sensitively. In a widely reported incident, Spencer apparently told...
DIED. CHARLES WERNER, 88, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist; near Indianapolis, Ind. Werner sketched for the Indianapolis Star for 47 years, but his winning image was done for the Oklahoman. Drawn shortly after the Sudetenland was handed over to Hitler in 1938, it proved sadly prophetic: a scroll marked NOBEL PEACE PRIZE lies beside a gravestone bearing the epitaph CZECHOSLOVAKIA...
...Crimson was The Service News for the duration, thin but useful. The Lampoon flourished, however, with my house mate and classmate Len Bregman as principal cartoonist and cover artist. The other literary forms of the time included richly inventive graffiti ("Henry VII Is Insatiable") and the bulletin-board memos of Elliot Perkins, the with master of Lowell House, who wrote with a graceful elegance that suggested The New Yorker and the Book of Common Prayer rolled into...
DIED. STAN DRAKE, 75, cartoonist; in Norwalk, Connecticut. After working for an ad agency, he turned to illustrating and in 1953 created the sentimental romantic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones. At one time, 600 newspapers carried the award-winning strip. Beginning in 1989, Drake illustrated the domestic adventures of Blondie...
Pulitzer prizewinning Atlanta Constitution cartoonist Mike Luckovich hitched a ride on Air Force One last week and persuaded the President to pen his own caricature. So was it the pain of artistic creation the President was feeling? "He wasn't comfortable doing it," says Luckovich with a laugh, "because he's not too good...