Word: cartoonist
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...nonfiction report on the world around us needs some art, in the form of narrative or metaphor or linguistics, to bring life to mere facts. Concurrently any work of art worthy of the name will report something new (either in content or form) to the audience. Joe Sacco, intrepid cartoonist, has been snooping around the borderlands between these disciplines for several years. His first important series, "Palestine," (1995) about life in the holy land during the first Intefada, gave us something radically new: a comic book that was immediately relevant to the real world. His next project, the graphic novel...
...other hand, the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 comes from the work of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which specifically deals with “greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol,” including Carbon Dioxide. If the cartoonist wanted to make a real political statement, she should have drawn a globe that was sweating while clinching onto the Kyoto Accords (but, of course, many other cartoonists have done this in other newspapers...
DIED. WILLIAM STEIG, 95, humanely perceptive cartoonist and illustrator for the New Yorker for seven decades, known as the King of Cartoons; in Boston. After joining the magazine in 1930, Steig produced some 1,700 drawings and cover illustrations, often featuring humorously worldly children he called Small Fry who exposed the craziness of modern life. At age 60, he began a successful second career writing children's books. Among them: Shrek, a tale of a green ogre, which was turned into a 2001 Oscar-winning animated film, and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, which won the prized Caldecott Medal...
...weight. It's a 20-pounder, Mom! It can alternate as a murder weapon." He says there's not much profit in it for him, despite the fact that, as he says, at $135, it costs about one car payment. "It's just a very cool thing for a cartoonist to have. It's my death book...
...Larson says, he never grew up dreaming of being a cartoonist. He just tried it one afternoon, after deciding his music-store job was too awful to go to anymore. He sold the six panels he drew that day to a local magazine, then others to the Seattle Times and later got a syndication deal through the San Francisco Chronicle. Though he liked the gig--and knew he was good at it--his love has always been jazz guitar, which he plays for several hours a day, occasionally sneaking into a band with friends to play at local weddings...