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Regular readers of comic strips will immediately recognize the illustration on our cover this week as the work of Cartoonist Garry Trudeau. The seven Doonesbury characters that he drew for us are the main inhabitants of Trudeau's Walden Puddle Commune: Uncle Duke, sitting smugly with an ever-present cocktail in hand, surrounded by flaky, pot-smoking Zonker Harris, Virginia, Michael J. Doonesbury himself, Joanie Caucus, football-playing B.D. and Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer, the local campus radical...
...fascinated by Cartoonist Conrad's portrayal of Father Ford bestowing a penitential blessing on a kneeling and presumably shriven New York City [Dec. 22]. I wonder if Conrad knows that he has the President of the United States giving the Boy Scout sign and not the ancient Christian gesture (index and middle fingers only) of God's peace. Intentional or unintentional, the bonus of that extra finger for New York serves to heighten the humor...
Evil Eye Fleegle, a creation of Cartoonist Al Capp, can deliver a "whammy," or dirty look, so powerful that it can melt steel and shrivel flesh. Neither U.S. nor Soviet researchers can duplicate Fleegle's feat. But both sides have long been working on weapons that may do the same thing. Jane's Yearbooks, London publisher of the authoritative guides to weapons systems, and the influential U.S. publication Aviation Week & Space Technology report that American and Russian scientists are stepping up efforts to develop weapons that until recently existed only in science fiction. They all depend...
...Died. Hugh Hutton, 78, acid-penned editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1934 to 1969; following a stroke; in Philadelphia. After studying at the University of Minnesota, he worked for a string of newspapers before joining the then Republican Inquirer. In the 1930s Hutton continually lampooned the New Deal, depicting Franklin Roosevelt as a popeyed, apron-clad cook feeding the American people "campaign soothing syrup...
That's the amazing thing about this book--the same as the Saturday passing of the magazine around the lunch table. A cartoonist we've never met has caught the sense of our habits and quirks with a quick sketch and a line of prose. "Here's one for you," the saying goes--I've heard it and said it a thousand times...