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...that a comic-strip cannibal chieftain named Gomquotz spoke out, astonishingly, in a mixture of Russian and Yiddish. So tickled were Jewish readers that Cartoonist Harry Hershfield shrewdly abandoned both Gomquotz and his setting?a strip called "Desperate Desmond"?and created a thoroughly Jewish character, Abie Kabibble. The new strip he named "Abie the Agent." For 18 years Abie appeared every day in the Hearstpapers (syndicated by Hearst's King Feature Syndicate), until last fortnight. On the day he disappeared, something new popped up in Bernarr Macfadden's New York Graphic. It was a strip headlined: HERSHFIELD...
...Cartoonist Hershfield's contract with King Features expired Dec. 31, was not renewed. Welcomed, with some surprise, by Macfadden, Hershfield signed a two-year contract for a daily cartoon and a daily colyum called "If I'm Wrong, Sue Me." When King Features saw that he proposed to call his Graphic character "A. Kabibble," it accepted the invitation, threatened suit for an injunction on the ground that Abie Kabibble?character and name?was its property. Cartoonist Hershfield changed his character's name to "Meyer the Buyer" and grimly prepared to fight...
...nearly everyone remembers, the name "Kabibble" comes from the familiar expression of two decades ago, "Ish kabibble" ("I should worry"). It is a corruption of the Yiddish jargon "nisht gefidelt" which meant the same thing but was hard for Gentiles to pronounce. Cartoonist Hershfield, who takes the action of King Features much to heart, last week promised "the biggest national fight you ever saw." Said he: "I am fighting for my natural right to earn a living. ... I claim that the character and his name are virtually chemical to myself and that no one should interfere with my right...
...Kabibble," whose creator is an extremely race-proud Jew. One of Cartoonist Hershfield's proudest boasts is that the late great philanthropist Nathan Straus used to send him ideas for "Abie." Sample Straus...
With what Cartoonist Hershfield calls "by-products" (magazine articles, vaudeville engagements, cinema, etc.) "Abie" netted "not less than $100,000 a year." He enables his creator to live in a rich apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, amid a collection of antiques, paintings and books valued at $1,000,000. With the cartoonist lives his wife, Sarah Jane Isdell, who was on the stage as Sarah Jane Dellis when they married 19 years ago. They have no children. When Cartoonist Hershfield stays home in the evening he reads Goethe, Kant, Spinoza. He has written one serious novel (SuperCity}, has completed...