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...what happens when a catastrophe overwhelms the cartoonist's ability to poniard a convenient victim on pen point? In Osborn's case, the assassination of John F. Kennedy left him nearly unable to draw. After a while, the cartoonist wrote his dealer, Edith Halpert, "I began to lay down my resentment of the disordered, disoriented, dislocated, DISJOINTED being-not so much Oswald as against the fragmented, illogical destroyers of man's best hopes...
...subject matter in the past year have accomplished anything more than timeliness. Social realism hardly makes the convincing picture that it did in the 1930s. But through Osborn's 27 chalk, collage and charcoal drawings in Manhattan's Downtown Gallery runs a brooding fury that links the cartoonist with the socially satirical art of Goya, Daumier and Ben Shahn. Side by side with looming figures symbolizing naked, illogical violence are Osborn's equally savage commentaries on the other nameless assassins responsible for the murders of Lieut. Colonel Lemuel Penn and the four children dynamited in an Alabama...
...identified, and the point of the joke is sometimes kept as deliberately small as the cartoon itself, which runs two columns wide to the typical editorial cartoon's three columns. "I find if I draw large, there's a tendency to put in too much detail," says Cartoonist Berry, himself a bulky and heavily detailed 210-pounder who stands...
Berry's forte is good-natured whimsy and a talent for deft deflation that is particularly effective when he sights in on his folksy cartoon image of Lyndon Johnson. His approach contrasts sharply with the generally aggressive comment of his cartoonist colleagues. "We get enough of the angry stuff," says Berry. He considers himself a "middle-of-the-roader" and prefers to keep his political preferences a secret for the ballot box. "I'm not really mad at anybody," he says. "Satire comes naturally to me, and I prefer to take potshots at anybody and anything...
While critical of both Goldwater and President Johnson for some of their statements which he called extreme, he said he was in their debt as a cartoonist for "ridiculous material...