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...grade classroom in Los Angeles. "A teacher spotted my drawings in the margin of a textbook and sent me to the principal," he recalls. "The principal said, 'What's to become of you?' and I said, 'Well, I'm going to be a sports cartoonist.' " He learned lettering as a department store artist, and after an apprenticeship of cleaning paste pots and doing layout retouching for various newspapers became a semiregular cartoonist for the sports section of the old Los Angeles Herald. The New York World-Telegram hired him in 1935, and for three...
Resentments. By all odds the best of U.S. sports cartoonists, Mullin is currently having his first one-man show on Long Island (a Mullin also hangs in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art). Eight times he has been voted best U.S. sports cartoonist and in 1954 was awarded the "Reuben" as the best of all cartoonists in the country. Later this month, the National Cartoonists Society will honor him as "Sports Cartoonist of the Century." Then Mullin will retreat to virtual retirement in Florida and do only "whatever work climbs up on my drawing board that...
...Cartoonist Goldberg achieved fame for a series of wildly complicated inventions that today can be seen as a prediction of the world's foundering in technology. Goldberg's contraptions used owls and trumpets to nominate people for political office, pistols and crows to feed an infant and rock its cradle. There was even a Hitler-kicking machine that gave the Führer his comeuppance via a cat, a mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia...
...tone of the evening hovered somewhere between shlock and slumber. The show got off to a nervous opening, with a somewhat tense local host introducing the master of ceremonies of the evening not once but twice as "Al Clap." Cartoonist Capp ignored that, launching into a brief monologue that included the evening's best one-liners: "Who would ever have thought you could elect a conservative from New York [Senator-elect James Buckley]? It used to be that you only admitted to being a conservative to your rabbi or priest or family doctor. Now it is legal to practice...
...presidents of children's programming. NBC cuts into Saturday morning programming with one-minute Pop Ups, spots designed to teach the use of letters. CBS has three-minute mini-documentaries called In The Know, featuring Josie and the Pussycats. ABC has announced a 1971 series, Curiosity Shop, produced by Cartoonist Chuck Jones (Roadrunner, Bugs Bunny...