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Irving grew up in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. His father, who changed the family name from Rafsky in the mid-'30s, was Jay Irving, a modestly successful cartoonist who drew covers for Collier's magazine and a comic strip called Pottsy-about a fat, amiable policeman-for the New York Daily News. The elder Irving was fascinated by cops and filled the apartment on West End Avenue with police memorabilia...
Until he became linked with Hughes, Irving devoted himself to a life of semi-bohemian writing and wandering. The son of Cartoonist Jay Irving, who drew the comic strip Pottsy, Clifford Irving was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell in 1951. He traveled, took odd jobs -brush salesman in Syracuse, machinist's helper in Detroit-lived on a houseboat in Kashmir and taught creative writing at U.C.L.A...
General George Patton, among others, thought that Mauldin's attitude toward discipline and authority was subversive. The funniest scene in this often funny book-which Mauldin calls "a sort of a memoir"-is the confrontation between the 23-year-old cartoonist and the famous general. "Now then, sergeant," Patton says in his most tolerant tone, "about those god-awful things you call soldiers. You know goddamn well you're not drawing an accurate representation of the American soldier. You make them look like goddamn bums. No respect for the army, their officers, or themselves. You know as well...
...York Cartoonist...
...worked for several of the same newspapers as Hemingway, but went West to Hollywood rather than East to Spain. After more failures with small Vaudeville routines, Disney began to produce cartoons and eventually came up with his first star, Mickey Mouse, designed not by Disney, but by his head cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. The development of more sophisticated cameras allowed Disney to create full length animated features: Fantasia, the Sill Symphonies, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which all had their roots in the primitive silent animation which Disney had seen when younger. There is no amazing story surrounding the creation...