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...rough spots and all, Politicks is a worthy conception well carried out. Its tabloid form is very attractive--you almost want to buy it just for the pictures and for the cartoons by Ed Sorel, the Voice cartoonist who is a true inheritor of Thomas Nast's tradition of political caricature in this country, among others. The real factor of course, will be money. This week's 28-page issue contains about four pages of ads, and the general rule of thumb says that to break even about half the issue has to be advertisements. Look for a 24-page...
...down in Dogpatch, but no date has yet been set yet for this year's Sadie Hawkins Day, that highly moveable feast on which Marryin' Sam will obligingly hitch a fleet-hoofed gal to any hapless bachelor she can catch. Finally, at Daisy Mae's insistence, Cartoonist Al Capp hisself makes a rare appearance in the strip to schedule the prenuptial foot race for Nov. 26. Snorts a disgusted Li'l Abner: "Ha!-Any day is okay when an-ugh! -Dogpatch maiden kin ketch-sob!-a Dogpatch bachelor...
DIED. Clarence Daniel Batchelor, 89, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist syndicated by the New York Daily News; in Deep River, Conn. Batchelor won his 1937 Pulitzer for a cartoon depicting war as a prostitute with a death's-head, saying to a European youth, "Come on in. I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...
Nevertheless, in the past decade or so, new columnists and cartoonists have, by dint of sheer talent, broken through and gathered a following. Among them: George Will and David Broder of the Washington Post Writers Group; Ellen Goodman, whose hip and compassionate Boston Globe commentary is also distributed by the Post Group; Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist who next week will launch with the Trib-News syndicate a comic strip about a bird who edits a newspaper; New York News Funnyman Gerald Nachman (TIME, Aug. 23,1976); and, most recently, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, a pair...
...great Band-Aid'?" asks the Richmond News Leader's Jeff MacNelly, who just may be the best young cartoonist in America. "Carter is hard to package...