Word: cartoonist
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...circumstances that drew these and many other cartoonists to Hellman's aid may strike anyone outside the comix community as surprisingly weird and petty. Hellman has been sued for libel by another cartoonist, Ted Rall, because of a prank played on him by Hellman. The imbroglio began when Rall, author of the weekly syndicated strip "Search and Destroy" and an occasional contributor to TIME magazine, wrote a cover story for the August 3, 1999 "Village Voice," headlined "The King of Comix." It presented Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer-winning "Maus," as a kind of New York cartooning Nero - made...
...form of backlash was an email sent to about thirty people, written by Danny Hellman, another New York cartoonist, posing as Rall, encouraging the recipients to send in their comments on the Spiegelman piece to a lewd email address. Hellman then began spoofing outraged responses by New York print media powerhouses both real and fictional. The artless prank was exposed within days, but like a pair of schoolyard bullies the two continued to escalate the matter until Rall brought suit against Hellman for $1.5 million in damages. So to support the legal fees Hellman has put together this "Legal Action...
...senses. "I haven't learned how to climb very high in my tree," she protests. "And I haven't learned how to sit in my tree for a whole hour." Creech's prose is accompanied by the witty illustrations of Harry Bliss, a New Yorker cover artist and cartoonist. On one page, a lunchroom wall is adorned with a sign that implores, WHY NOT STUDY WHILE YOU CHEW...
...Hardball's Chris Matthews, who has become a leading political cartoonist, says the whiskered Gore looks "like a Bolshevik labor organizer...
...would have stayed on the page if not for Terry Zwigoff, best known for Crumb, his 1994 documentary on the cartoonist. Eager to direct a fiction feature, the San Francisco filmmaker got in touch with Clowes to work on Ghost World. At first, they tried a close adaptation of the comic. "It wasn't working," Clowes says. "We were sustaining the corpse of something. So we took little tangents and enlarged them, and took things that were large in the comic and shrank them down to tangents. It was changed at the atomic level." Clowes remained an active force during...