Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo, a jovial, bigdomed man who explodes into mock-temper tantrums, makes more than $250,000 a year by illustrating his simple theory that things always happen at the worst possible moment. Last week Hatlo, whose syndicated cartoon "They'll Do It Every
...best friend." The Post was all out to block an anti-dog ordinance in the city council that would virtually force dog owners to keep their pets on a leash or shut up in yards of homes. On its back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage." As dogs do every time, the man-eater struck a "cute 1'il WoozyOzzums" pose when the postal inspector arrived to investigate McMucilage's complaint. Nevertheless, the harm was done. Hatlo had sabotaged the paper...
...quickly made amends to the Post with a special Hatlo cartoon (a Post editor tearing his hair and screaming "Kill the Hatlo cartoon!! No, better still, kill Hatlo!") and Ratio's "abject apologies to every dog ... in Denver." Said his apology: "This sort of thing is always happening to me. If I draw a cold-weather cartoon showing my characters shivering in their red underwear . . . the temperature will rise to about 102°F. the day it appears...
Once a year Hatlo leaves his Pebble Beach, Calif, home to travel around the U.S. for three months searching out the amiable "snobs, cheats, phonies and bores" that populate his cartoons. "Drawing the cartoon is just a matter of looking around," says he, "and putting down the things that annoy...
...Here's a cartoon--free. If you don't intend to run it, I'll send it to the Yale News. One of the great characteristics of Yale--always a trifle too slow. (Part of wisdom is sensing things early as Columbia did. It is the mark of intelligent...