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Rarely does a magazine cartoonist undertake the routine of drawing comic strips for newspapers. Outstanding of the new artists who have succeeded as comic strippers are Percy Crosby ("Skippy") and Gluyas Williams ("Suburban Heights" et al.). Artists whose newspaper comics have fallen short of their magazine popularity include John Held, Jr. ("Margy"), Ellison Hoover ("Outlines of Oscar"), Jefferson Machamer ("Petting Patty...
Last week famed Cartoonist Rea Irvin broke into the "funnies" with a new full-page Sunday series. Other publishers had been watching to see whom and what the New York Herald Tribune would procure for itself and its syndicate to replace "Mr. & Mrs." by the late great Cartoonist Clare Briggs. Instead of replacing "Mr. & Mrs." the Herald Tribune has continued it, drawn by a "ghost" (Cartoonist Arthur Folwell). But also the Herald Tribune engaged Rea Irvin. His title is "The Smythes;" his characters, the conventional father, mother, small son & daughter, Pekinese pup; his theme, the conventional burlesque...
...half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate, any city in the world. New Yorkers who had seen the Navy's great air "raid" (TIME, May 19) or readers of Hearstpapers who two days prior to the review had seen Cartoonist Windsor McKay's nightmarishly memorable picture of a city gassed from the skies, were more than ever impressed with the perfection of modern sea machinery...
Graduates. The task of gathering funds from the legislature (which falls to any state college president) is considerably ameliorated in the case of California, for Governor Young was graduated in the class of 1892. Among other of California's celebrated sons and daughters: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg; Authors Charles Norris and Jack London; Humorist Sam Hellman; Crack U. S. Army Aviator James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle; Tennis Champion Helen Wills Moody; President Aurelia H. Reinhardt of Mills College (Oakland); Julius Klein, U. S. assistant secretary of commerce; Vice President Willis H. Booth of Guaranty Trust Co., onetime president of International Chamber...
When the lights went up again, spectators saw the instrument which had been accomplishing these wonders. It looked like a machine on which Novelist Jules Verne and Cartoonist Rube Goldberg had collaborated. It looked most like a giant dumb-bell (14 ft. high), hinged where a giant would grip it. The two knobs were spotted with "eyes," each fitted with lenses and lights, which projected "stars" on the ceiling. In the handle was machinery governing the motions of the planets...