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...Separate Cinema includes many for movies that have since been lost, for re-makes of original films, and for foreign movies starring African-American actors. Most are accompanied by a passage explaining their significance. There are six distinct versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, including one for cartoonist Tex Avery's "Uncle Tom's Cabana" in which, it is ironically pointed out, "liberties taken with the original story permit Uncle Tom to be run over with a steamroller and cut in half with a sawmill blade...
...young, aspiring cartoonist this is an exciting time. This is virgin ground, as new to all my crusty cartoonist idols--the Danzigers, MacNellys, Oliphants...
Caricature is a tricky business, you see, and unfortunately not my strong suit, as it makes great demands of a cartoonist's life drawing skills, skills with which I am somewhat unencumbered...
Immediately after the election, Jeff Danziger, editorial cartoonist for The Christian Science Monitor, did a wonderful cartoon illustrating this process. A proported page from Danziger's "cartoon notebook," designed to demonstrate his attempt to work up a Clinton caricature, is a montage of a dozen different, dogged attempts to draw the president-elect. I have a copy of this cartoon (which was reprinted in The Boston Globe) taped to the wall next to my drawing board in the vain hope that it will provide me with a little help, a bit of direction for the next time I have...
...understandably best when dealing with foreign policy, but his repeated insistence that "it's not all that gloomy; we're the United States" seemed wildly out of touch with the pain so many Americans feel, and the fear of so many others that they will experience similar hardship. The cartoonist Herblock once drew Bush on the sidelines of the Central American wars waving a banner that said GO CONTRAS! That the President felt it necessary to play cheerleader in St. Louis is likely attributable to his having run up against two unfortunate requirements: the need to avoid being too negative...