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...douzaine (Cheaper by the Dozen). The prize, which is supposed to be 500 gold écus, was paid off this year in 500 ten-franc aluminum pieces, all in a spirit of high good humor. The Prix Rabelais (50 liters of Brouilly wine) went to H. P. Gassier, a cartoonist...
...recent graduates have subjects the College to a comic book analysis with 57 witty and perceptive cartoons and a short, sometimes amusing text. David G. Braaten drew most of the cartoons for the CRIMSON while he was its staff cartoonist in 1947-49. He has added several more since his graduation to bring the 62-page volume up to date...
Braaten is probably the best cartoonist Harvard has had since Gluyas Williams, and for this reason alone the book is worth owning...
Thus pale, frail, one-eyed Carl Giles, 36, famed cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express (circ. 4,222,000) describes himself in a book of his cartoons just published by the Express. But most Fleet-Streeters-and Express readers-would describe Giles more simply as, next to David Low, the best cartoonist in Britain. Even Americans, often baffled by British humor, think Giles is funny, and his cartoons now appear in 22 Canadian and eight U.S. newspapers...
...animators in Alexander Korda's film company, got his bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that in 1937 Reynolds News gave him a job as a cartoonist. His work caught the eye of the Beaver, who took him over in 1943. Overnight, Giles won a huge following in wartime Britain, notably American soldiers, who liked his good-humored pot shots at their habits. At a time when Americans were monopolizing London taxis, Giles cartooned an American plane...