Word: cartoonist
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DIED. JEFF MACNELLY, 52, three-time Pulitzer prizewinning political cartoonist who created the comic strip Shoe, which is syndicated in 1,000 papers; of lymphoma; in Baltimore...
...Harvard, Hobbs concentrated in American History, writing his honor's thesis on the nineteenth century political cartoonist Thomas Nast. But, he says, his favorite activity while at Harvard was hanging out in the Winthrop House dining hall...
...Sacco is able to tell a balanced story that never gets sentimental. With a journalism degree from the University of Oregon, Sacco has strong reporting skills that he meshes with his longtime love of drawing. "Maybe I'm a B journalist," he says. "But I'm a really good cartoonist who does journalism." He spent his 20s bouncing around a slew of frustrating writing and copy-editing jobs, including a particularly bad one with a newsletter for the Notary Association. There's not a lot of breaking news in the world of notarizing documents...
GEEK GRUB Already a cult figure among geeks for his Dilbert comic strip about office life in a high-tech world, cartoonist Scott Adams has decided to capitalize on his fame by creating the Dilberito. It's an all-in-one microwaveable meal-in-a-pocket aimed at the laptop-and-modem crowd. Bland but basically edible, the Dilberito comes in four flavors, all vegetarian and all stuffed with vitamins and protein. Is the Dilberito for everyone? "Some people care about efficiency," Adams says. "Some people don't. We'll get them last...
...start as a professional cartoonist long before he became a "liberal with children," in his junior year at Yale...