Word: cartoonists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old contributor to the 45th Division News, Mauldin's drawings (of which this book reprints 439) retained most of the stock situations of the civilian cartoonist's view of the army. There were the gags about KP, guard duty, and the soldier whose wife turns up in the WAC's. But as you thumb through this handsome book, as Mauldin's outfit moves from training stateside to Sicily, then Italy, the top sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time...
Mauldin was an editorial cartoonist and a good one, more remarkable since most of his drawings were done for squeamish service papers. He laughs at airmen and officers, sneers at the "garritroopers"--"too far forward t'wear ties an' to far back t'git shot." The only people who keep out from under Mauldin's wrath are the infantrymen--Willie and Joe. Mauldin's heart lies squarely with the dogface. One thing Sloane's book lacks is the biting accompanying text of the earlier Mauldin...
...fuller explanation of Cartoonist Gould was no more convincing. Said he: "I don't exactly know Dick's salary, but I do know that he's always been pretty much of a Scotchman. Hell, he saved his money. The house itself might well be now worth $50,000. But I don't think he spent much more than $25,000 for it." He isn't sure how big the modern mansion really is. His daughter, Jean, had drawn the plans, never got beyond the first floor, which contains a mere six rooms...
Organized Chaos. Though not the highest-paid, George Price is probably the funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel...
...Cartoonist Price, 50, never went to art school. He gives young cartoonists tips on how to sell their stuff rather than how to do it. A typical suggestion: "Disguise your drawings by wrapping them so that the editor thinks he's getting a fruit cake. If that doesn't work, send him a fruit cake...