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...cartoon is really an editorial," Cartoonist Rollin Kirby once said. "It must be judged by what it says rather than the way in which it says it, and what art there is in cartooning is the art of driving the message home." For more than 40 years, slim, courtly Rollin Kirby practiced this art with such skill that he had few peers in U.S. newspaperdom...
...Dealing New York Post. "When I'm through here," he said glumly, "I'm through for good." In 1942, when the money-pinched Post slashed his fat salary, he quit, never again joined a daily newspaper, although he did free-lance work. Last week, at 76, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby died in his sleep at the Manhattan hotel where he lived...
...political moron when I took this job-and I still am." So Leonard Norris, 38, describes his qualifications for the job of political cartoonist on the Vancouver Sun. Norris joined the paper two years ago as a staff artist drawing maps, diagrams, etc., and he took his present assignment under protest. But his ignorance of politics has hardly been a handicap. Last week, scarcely a year after he started newspaper cartooning, Norris was named the best cartoonist of 1951 in Canada's annual Toronto Press Club National Newspaper Awards, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Pulitzer Prizes. Many a Canadian...
Family Man. Though the Sun bills Norris as a "political" cartoonist, he uses his pen and eye more for mild satire on the passing Canadian social scene. He feels that "symbolism, or worlds with faces and hairy guys labeled 'war,' are not my line." An admirer of famed London Daily Express Cartoonist Carl Giles (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950), Norris shows Giles's influence in his own work. Norris populates his world with shy, baffled citizens, harried housewives, fiercely determined children. He lampoons everything from Canada's first native-born Governor General and the laws against colored...
Like many another cartoonist, Norris has created a family: George Phelps, his wife and children, including Filbert, a chillingly destructive child. In one cartoon, Mrs. Phelps is shown applying for a job as a civilian-defense volunteer, with Filbert stealthily preparing a dynamite charge to blow up the office, and another child-at the end of a leash-growling savagely at a terrified dog. Asks the startled clerk: "And you say you have experience with riots, first aid, salvage and repair, a knowledge of weapons and nothing but contempt for the atom bomb...