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...still go to first nights in their tuxedos and evening dresses, but these are duded-up dinosaurs; today's theater opening is the latest in a series of wakes. At one of these poignant occasions, filmed for Susan W. Dreyfoos' vivacious 1998 documentary "The Line King: Al Hirschfeld," fellow cartoonist Jules Feiffer rightly opined, "The only glamour left in the theater is what Al brings to it. And he is to what he does what Astaire was to what he did. Al has the same effortlessness, the same grace, the same wit, and that lighter-than-air quality." True enough...
...DIED. BILL MAULDIN, 81, American army sergeant turned Pulitzer prizewinning cartoonist; in Newport Beach, California. Mauldin's unconquerable GIs Willie and Joe inspired and immortalized the courage of American soldiers in World War II. After the war, Mauldin became a syndicated cartoonist and won his second Pulitzer for depicting Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak saying to another prisoner: "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime...
...economic decline and rampant corruption - and especially in the run-up to the election - Kenyans have begun to poke fun at the old man in ways that used to be unthinkable. "What you are seeing is the reaction of people who are tired," says Godfrey "Gado" Mwampembwa, a popular cartoonist who began lampooning the President in 1992, when Kenya held its first real multiparty election. "Before then you couldn't touch him. Now all people want to talk about is the end of Moi. They're telling him, 'Look, you've been here too long. We need someone new.'" Sadly...
...pound, hard-hitting fullback who’s also a political cartoonist? Senior Collin Blackburn is not your stereotypical football player...
...countryside, and this flood of light somehow entered his work." With darkness by its side, as Updike well understands. He takes art seriously. For more than 20 years he has been producing a good-size body of art criticism, reviews full of nuance and sharp eyesight. Once an aspiring cartoonist, he majored in English at Harvard but studied afterward at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford. His first wife was a painter, and on their return to the U.S., he tried painting too, until he realized how hard it was to "lay out the colors, then...