Word: cartoonists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty stiff in those days) was capable of ejecting so huge or so sudden a flood of tears, and of drying it up a second later in such gales of laughter. Once, at the funeral of a beloved friend on a rainy day, Dickens found himself close to Cartoonist George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead...
...annual dinner of the National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
Chic Young has a simple explanation for the success of Blondie, which appears in 1,085 U.S. and Canadian papers and 178 foreign ones,* has been the foundation for 25 movies and a radio program, and has furnished names for countless dresses, dolls, sandwiches, shampoos, kazoos and mops. Cartoonist Young regards himself as a kind of chronicler of "the common man." Says he: "Blondie appeals to people because it is about simple things-eating, sleeping, the business of raising children, happenings around the house...
...Louis, he used to sketch his classmates, and soon after graduation got a job cartooning in New York. He made the big time with Dumb Dora, then sold Hearst's King Features Syndicate on the idea of Blondie. After 1 8 years of drawing Blondie, 48- year-old Cartoonist Young still finds it a chore. To help him meet deadlines, he quit Manhattan in 1939 for the quiet of a small fruit ranch in Van Nuys, Calif. There, he settles himself before a drawing board every Thursday at 9 a.m. and works for 1 6 hours. At bedtime...
Dennis' chief Earl Browder was sent to jail for the popular Communist felony of passport fraud. Robert Minor, an elderly and bemused ex-St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoonist, was given the temporary job of boss. But Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero...