Word: cartoonist
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...narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March published in 1928. The author was a former New Yorker editor, and the poem caused something of a scandal in its day (it was banned--no fooling--in Boston). But it was long out of print until a new edition, illustrated by the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, appeared in 1994. In the introduction, Spiegelman reported that a big fan of the poem was the Beat writer William Burroughs, who claimed it was "the book that made me want to be a writer...
...have frequently unleashed violence on the President's supporters. A prominent ayatullah provided a moment of comic relief by making the farfetched claim that an ex-CIA director had arrived in Tehran with suitcases full of cash for reformers. The laughter was short-lived: hard-liners jailed a cartoonist for lampooning the conspiracy-minded ayatullah...
DIED. MARC DAVIS, 86, cartoonist who designed Tinker Bell and Bambi; in Los Angeles. An animator for Disney, he also helped dream up such theme-park rides as Pirates of the Caribbean...
DIED. DON MARTIN, 68, Mad magazine cartoonist whose wild-haired, rubber-faced creations suffered miserable, grotesque, almost palpable fates (Splop! Shklip! Pwang!) and influenced scores of young cartoonists, including The Far Side's Gary Larson; in Miami...