Word: cartoonists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Low, perhaps the most famed political cartoonist of modern times, worked over the faces of the great with a wooden matchstick dipped in India ink. For his own self-portrait he has chosen pastels...
...pure abstractionists" whose work was accepted for exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, I am deeply honored to be included in Cartoonist Al Capp's "small group of the unbalanced," etc., which has given him so much pain [Feb. 18]. In the loneliness of my basement studio I am eternally grateful that I have never degraded my talent or my conscience nor sold my soul-for a bowl of mud-mushrooms...
...Amen, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp. May your tribe increase...
...Alan Arthur, whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur in a miserable boyhood moment, thus laying the groundwork for his presidential veto of the Chinese Exclusion...
German-born Rudolph Dirks was the first U.S. cartoonist to develop a plot with a series of consecutive panels and a permanent cast of characters, the first to enclose all his dialogue in balloons. His Kids, christened Katzenjammer (German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil...