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...drawing is the work of Miami News Cartoonist Don Wright, 40. The President has been getting roughhouse treatment on many editorial pages since Watergate began, but no one has been harder on Nixon than Wright. Along with the Denver Post's Patrick Oliphant, the Washington Post's Herblock and the Los Angeles Times's Paul Conrad, Wright is now one of the nation's most widely published editorial cartoonists. Whether he is shown carrying on both ends of a phone conversation (and listening in on earphones in the middle) or provoking hysterical laughter in a Martian...
...During stints as a photographer and picture editor, he dashed off cartoons for the paper's editors, who frequently posted them on newsroom bulletin boards. In 1963 he was persuaded to seek a wider audience by drawing full time. "I had no idea what an editorial cartoonist was or what he was supposed to do," says Wright, "except that he was supposed to have an opinion." Having few firm views on current affairs, he was forced to educate himself rapidly. Wright also faced tough competition from Bill Mauldin and Herblock, whose syndicated work was available to News editors. Wright...
...early 1930s, when Goldberg was in his 40s, his quality began to decline. Still, he continued to work successfully for years as an ultraconservative editorial-page cartoonist with the New York Sun and Journal. Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87. Neither Biographer Marzio's scholarly research nor the cartoonist's own occasional triumphs- he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave...
Like masters of more exalted arts, Cartoonist Walt Kelly succeeded in turning an imaginary landscape into a public preserve. With pen and wit he put together the world of Pogo, an inspired amalgam of bogs, hollow stumps, hog-jowl dialect and cheery absurdity. There, over 150 anthropomorphic critters gnawed away at the English language, baring kernels of political meaning, and carried on not-so-innocent satires of human pomposity. Phineas T. Bridgeport, the Barnum of bears, orated in billboard letters that burlesqued hucksterism everywhere. "Nuclear physics ain't so new and it ain't so clear," declared Rowland...
...affection for the Southern dialect that was to become the patois of Pogo. (Though Kelly began using the Okefenokee setting in cartoons in 1942, he did not visit the swamp until 1955.) In 1948 he joined the short-lived New York Star as art director, editorial adviser and political cartoonist; he also donated Pogo strips to the impoverished paper. The Star folded the following year, but Pogo survived in the New York Post...