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...Crimson Cartoonist at "Tommy she Bopper...
Says Carelman, 42, a onetime dental surgeon who has become well known as a designer and cartoonist: "I guess you could call me a critic of society, all societies-but especially the wasteful consumer society. My defense against the aggressiveness of objects is derision, humor. I deal with objects everyone is familiar with, like a hammer. I deform them and people get a shock. Children react the best, intellectuals second best...
According to the credits, The War Between Men and Women was "suggested by the writings and drawings of James Thurber." Peter Wilson, the hero of the movie, resembles Thurber in that he is half blind and a cartoonist; Wilson's drawings, shown in several sequences of the film, are closely adapted from Thurber's own. But there ends any meaningful connection in plot or spirit to the life of the late cartoonist...
...Cartoonist Ralph Bakshi softens up the story. He makes Fritz into a harmless NYU romantic, circa 1967. (The date is a needless hedge, and a more potent campus might have made Fritz dangerous.) This doesn't work for much of Fritz: under Crumb lies agony, under Bakshi gas. The screen Fritz enacts the essential Crumb pose of a phony out for pleasure under moralistic guises. He sees through all the other phonies and beats them at their game by living out his fantasies in fact. But this Fritz is enveloped with his animator's love (he's even cuter facially...
Through the '50s, Irving continued to travel and write. In 1957 he published his second novel, The Losers, a New York chronicle of a businessman-idealist and an artist-opportunist. It is narrated by a cartoonist. With great pride, Irving quotes Poet Robert Graves as calling it "the best short novel I have read in 20 years." That is by far the most extravagant praise his works have ever drawn. His next book, The Valley, was an adult western published in 1961. In 1966 came The Thirty-Eighth Floor, about an American black who becomes acting U.N. Secretary-General...