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...Texas are not political partners of the Führer of Germany . . . but indeed they are slaves of the same prejudices and superstitions. Mexicans have become the victims of ignorant rabble who see in blond hair and blue eyes their pretended racial superiority." In Mexico City's Novedades, Cartoonist Garcia Cabral scornfully, resentfully showed Mexican Comic Character Cantinflas tolerating "even Texans...
George Bernard Shaw denied that famed British Cartoonist David Low's cartoons of G.B.S. were convincing. Said Shaw: "One day when I went into a friend's flat I saw a caricature of me that seemed to be good-cruel, of course, but still what a caricature should be. Then . .. I saw it was a mirror...
Imaginations had long since found release in popular, illustrated broadsides. The tradition of this imagerie populaire, passed on by Geneva cartoonist Rudolph Topffer, was rekindled by Dore. His little-known little kings of Russia, emerging from the same folk sources as Otto Soglow's present-day Little King and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, have a verve and gaiety that is hard to reconcile with his brooding plates for the classics...
Comic Sourpuss. Star of the 48th News is its cartoonist, babyfaced, 22-year-old Bill Mauldin (onetime truck driver, Chicago dishwasher and sign painter), from Phoenix, Ariz. Mauldin's chief character is an unshaven, weary-shouldered, sad-eyed "Joe," the typical U.S. soldier learning war the hard way. Soldiers think he is so true to life that potent Stars & Stripes also runs him now & then. "Joe" seldom smiles as he goes through the trials of the soldier's life. Explains Mauldin: "Life up there isn't very funny. I was 18 when I joined...
...Judge. At 18 he went to Chicago to art school. He studied in Paris, came home, married a home-town girl he had loved since childhood, got busy cartooning for the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Evening Mail, the Daily News, the Tribune. He was probably the first daily political cartoonist...