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...cover of this week's TIME once painted a TIME cover himself. The time was World War II, and the subject was Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed weary dogface, Willie. Now, after a few years of finding himself, Mauldin at 39 is the most promising political cartoonist on the U.S. scene. TIME Cover Artist Henry Koerner journeyed to St. Louis to spend a fortnight getting an artist's impression of a fellow artist...
...into a tub of steaming hot water and submerged right up to his jug-handle ears. For most men, the solitary ritual of the tub means a chance to escape for a while from the cares and worries of the world outside-but not for William Henry Mauldin, editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water of his bath is roiled with national and international crises, and in the rising steam swarm the wraithlike figures of politicians, statesmen and world...
...lifetime, Honore Victorin Daumier was known chiefly as a relentless political cartoonist, but a few contemporaries appreciated him for the gifted painter that he was. "Daumier," wrote the poet Baudelaire, "knows all the absurd misery, all the folly, all the pride of the small bourgeois-this type that is at once commonplace and eccentric-for he has lived intimately with them and loves them." Last week the serious side of Honore Daumier was on view at Lon don's Tate Gallery in 231 paintings and drawings, the biggest Daumier show in 60 years. Daumier's reputation...
Asked about his favorite U.S. vacation spot, Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally) Addams gave Town & Country Magazine a reply that left the city fathers of Tucson, Ariz., wondering whether they had been panned or praised. Said Addams, whose macabre drawings feature a ghoul-infested mansion occupied by a gaunt female vampire, a fat male fiend and a child ogre: "I have never been there, but from what I hear, it sounds like my kind of town...
Then, at 900,000 feet, you'll get the feeling that you must have a banana!" The cartoon is excellent, but doesn't Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom have his left shoe on his right foot? JIM HONIGSCHMIDT Robbinsdale, Minn. ¶ So it seems, but not to Cartoonist Emmwood...