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...Times's Bill Mauldin, who found Kennedy "inscrutable" and therefore hard to capture, ropes Johnson with ease: "He's scrutable. What he's thinking shows through." The Washington Star's James Berryman, who has harpooned Presidents for 31 years, considers Johnson "the answer to a cartoonist's prayer-with those great, heavy eyebrows, the tremendous darkness around his eyes, that long eagle beak, the short upper lip that makes him look like he doesn't have his uppers in, and the largest ears of anybody outside of a donkey I've ever seen...
Others are not so certain that it's all that easy to limn the essential Lyndon. At the Christian Science Monitor, Cartoonist Guernsey Le Pelley practiced for a week while committing the President to print, and even now draws guardedly: "You change Johnson too much and he looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down...
...times, Thiebaud has been a gag cartoonist, a cinema director, and an advertising art director. Now he teaches painting at the University of California's Davis campus. "New realism," says Thiebaud, "certainly relates to advertising art-cropping, directness, noninvolvement with the product. Abstract expressionism said you had to be involved, to search for individual consciousness and sensibility. The new realists, or Pop artists, say it's possible to be cool, not have a personal feeling for the object. The new artist is saying maybe you can do your art with ease, without any involvement...
After the death of the Los Angeles Times's Editorial Cartoonist Bruce Russell last month (of a heart attack at 60), Publisher Otis Chandler went hunting for a successor. Last week Chandler, who wants "the best of everything" for his paper and is prepared to pay the price, announced a considerable catch: the Denver Post's Paul Conrad, 39 (TIME, June 13, 1960), one of the best editorial cartoonists...
...Cartoonist Conrad is a registered Democrat who says he has "strayed from the path of righteousness and truth" only once-to vote for Eisenhower in 1952. But his pen knows no political party. In Los Angeles he will find much the same political environment that he is getting ready to leave. Both the Post and the Times are Republican papers. But Times Publisher Chandler has promised Conrad the same latitude that he enjoyed in Denver, where, despite occasional remonstrances from Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt, Conrad persisted in depicting former President Eisenhower as progressively senile and slightly vacuous...