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...cartoonist's best boon to citizens weary of campaign pomposities and profundities is laughter. Than laughter, few political weapons are more damaging. Manhattan's smartchart, The New Yorker, demonstrated that sound fact this year when, just for fun, it printed two political cartoons. They proved among the most effective of the campaign. One, by slim, modest William G. Crawford, who signs himself Galbraith, gave a new twist to the young mistress-old lover theme. The other, by famed Peter Arno, capitalized the currently popular pastime of attending newsreel theatres for the pleasure of cheering one's Presidential...
Only one crackerjack new cartoonist has emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered...
...said of the New Deal farm program, "like the automobile manufacturers, the Administration believes in bringing out a new model every year," he got laughter as well as cheers. Next day he lunched with State GOP Chairman Carl Cook, 300 newspaper editors and 99 farmers, dined that evening with Cartoonist "Ding" Darling...
...newspapers, Esquire Features offered a daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio hillbilly and cinema humor and music on a home-made "bazooka" were last week estimated in Variety to be earning him $400,000 a year."* Pictorial humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current Esquire one of them is discovered by the side of a balky old car, gawking at an aged woman who is hanging from a nearby tree with a crank in her hand. Caption...
...time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew harder & harder. Ten cents was required of contestants for each week's entries, $16,000 in prizes promised to those whose...