Word: cartoonist
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...safety. “I am simply stupid,” Graysmith says, referring to his lack of prudence when dealing with the Zodiac Killer. But Graysmith was not a police inspector or a crime reporter like the other three men focused on the case; he was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who liked going to the library and solving encrypted messages. When the threats became more aggressive, he learned to take, well, minor precautions. “I would open my door with my foot because you know, it gets to you a little...
...serial killer who terrorized the California Bay Area during the 1970’s with a series of random killings, cryptic letters, and puzzling ciphers. The film is shot from the point of view of journalists, detectives, and members of the general populace, as well as a young political cartoonist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. The true story of the Zodiac Killer is a frightening and horrible one, but the film is neither a conventional horror movie nor a carefully-crafted psychological thriller. Fincher’s goal, rather, is to chill the viewer with an almost hyper-real style...
...raising its exposure while exposing it to unfair comparison. Even worse, she says, people assume that her husband does all the writing and drawing on their collaborative works. In many ways her artwork perfectly counterbalances Crumb's. Where he has one of the finest drafting skills of any living cartoonist her "tortured scratching" (her words) makes a mockery of proportion, weight and space. People hate her for it just as people hate Robert Crumb for his outlandish depictions of women and blacks. But just as Crumb's art comes from daring to confront his own prejudices, it takes guts...
...When it works, which is 90% of the time, Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love provides a fascinating opus of an important cartoonist's work and a model for autobiographical comix. Kominsky Crumb seems to hold nothing back and has created a startling, frequently uproarious snapshot of art and life in postwar "jerk" America...
...Many comics artists, including Kurtzman and much of the Mad gang, had been schooled in fine art before turning to the strips. Some, like Will Elder, Kurtzman's loopiest cartoonist, and Al Feldstein, the mastermind of EC's horror and science fiction comics before becoming editor of Mad in 1956, have turned to more respectable forms of watercolors - what could easily be recognized as art, if not great art - in their twilight years. But in their prime, when Elder and Feldstein (and Herriman and Segar and King) were doing their most vigorous work, sending out comic distress signals under...