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...single foreign correspondent, Hong Kong-based Henry Bradsher. Costly wire and features services are also going. The Sacramento Union has saved as much as $80,000 a year by ordering its Associated Press ticker removed (and taking on the far less expensive Chicago Daily News/Sun-Times news service and Cartoonist Bill Mauldin), and Washington's WTTG-TV has for the moment stopped buying $100 commentaries by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak...
Radish Feast. Today Chase is bombarded with announcements from obscure trade groups and societies anxious to list events along the lines of the Old Fiddler's Reunion, the Muzzle Loaders festival, or the Feast of the Radishes. Occasionally he runs into troublesome sources like Cartoonist Al Capp, who insists that " 'Sadie Hawkins Day' comes whenever I say it comes in November." Because of Capp's unpredictability, Chase has had to drop the day from his publication. He also has problems with the promoters of National Procrastination Week. Their listing routinely arrives a week or so after...
...peruses ancient journals knows that if nothing is as old as yesterday's news, nothing seems fresher than its editorial cartoon. In satirizing events and event makers, the cartoon refines material until only the ridiculous essence remains. Circumstances impossible in the real world are staged upon the cartoonist's proscenium: the politician comes face to face with his broken promises, hypocrisy assumes a human face, fingers are pointed, blame is fixed, responsibility attached to recognizable figures...
...would be the grossest distortion to pretend that editorial cartoonists are all Goyas in a hurry. Nothing inspires bromides like a deadline. Artists against the clock have too often relied on labels and fatigued metaphors to make their point. Back in 1925, The New Yorker lampooned the journeyman cartoonist with his crayoned clichés: the literalized Sea of Public Indignation; the bearded Radical; the masked thief with his tag of Crime Wave; the debt-ridden Commuter...
Happily, such pictures are beginning to find less favor with readers-and with cartoonists. Says Bill Mauldin, at 53 a. 35-year veteran of the editorial page: "Cartoons are getting better, more and more away from labels. Readers are more savvy. It is less and less necessary to put names on things. The trend is more interesting drawing, less complicated captions." To sharpen his point, Mauldin spent last semester teaching a course in his profession at Yale. "I deliberately started with a nondrawing bunch," recalls the most technically proficient cartoonist of his generation. "What counts is the thinking. A drawing...