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...Amateur Cartoonist Kincaid's Contes Français now reaches 1,209,000 subscribers to five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...
...shuns English. In Toledo, where grade school French is mandatory, the Blade bought the strip after it discovered that 16,321 third-to sixth-graders were toiling at the tongue. A Toledo school official says that "most of our teachers are using the strip in one way or another." Cartoonist Kincaid now hopes to launch a strip in Spanish, based on The Barber of Seville. She draws it; a Spaniard writes it. As yet, she has not learned Spanish -but she will...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of the landings on the beachhead at Anzio, 1944. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who was there, comments...
...prismatic paintings of land, sea and city scenes that his earlier career as a major caricaturist is all but forgotten. Though born in the U.S. and always a U.S. citizen, he went to Berlin in 1894, started working for German newspapers, made himself Germany's foremost cartoonist. He had a gift for whimsy and fantasy that stayed with him right up to 1956, when he died at 84. The gift is charmingly displayed in a new show called "The Intimate World of Lyonel Feininger," at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...friends, there is the sense that only through distortion can one see reality, and that since reality changes constantly, distortion of some sort must imply that change. The comic and the cosmic artist were not so far apart, and Feininger the painter was always grateful to Feininger the cartoonist. "Far be it from me," he said, "to underrate those important years as a comics draftsman. They were my only discipline...