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...keen eye trained to observe the antics of one's fellow men and a fine sense of humor are the prime requisites for a cartoonist," declared Clare Briggs, America's leading cartoonist in an interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is the author of a number of series of cartoons, among the best known being "Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?", "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Someone is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life", "Mr. and Mrs.", and "Real Folks at Home...
...cartoonist scoffed at the idea that an art school training would be of any great value to a would-be cartoonist. "There isn't much art in a comic strip, and I doubt whether going to an art school could be of much use anyhow. I never went to one, and most other cartoonists I know of never did. Experience and hard work, of course, are necessary preliminaries for a career at the drawing-board...
Correspondents who cabled that no German cartoonist had dared to caricature President von Hindenburg during the recent April Fools' Day spree of lampooning German statesmen (TIME, April 11), were obliged to retract their error last week when attorneys for President von Hindenburg began suit for libel against the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne (Red Flag) because of a cartoon it published on April 1. Rote Fahne depicted a huge bull standing before three white-clad butchers, with the caption: Hindenburg in Civil Dress Reviews the Companies of Honor on Remembrance Day. Whatever this meant (and the President's attorneys...
Hendrik Willem van Loon, cartoonist-historian : "In Berlin, where I was last week endeavoring to sell the German rights to my picture-history America, I announced: 'Europe is poor, her art and literature are bunk and all she is thinking of is three square meals and a suit of clothes. . . . Europe thinks we have some magic formula. It is really only that we live and let live, whereas Europe lives and lets starve. . . . Europeans only read about Ford, Rockefeller, Edison, portable tea-tables, shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life...
...FISHER MEETS GIRL" said New York headlines. Down the bay "Bud," genial cartoonist who gets about $200,000 because he created "Mutt and Jeff," climbed on board the S. S. Conte Rosso. He greeted Trava Dawn, late of the Greenwich Village Follies. In a New York courtroom, a Supreme Court Justice listened to the once famed divorce proceedings brought against Cartoonist Fisher by the Countess de Beaumont...