Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like come of its predecessors, the new Lampoon presents well-executed art work, a good cartoon, and occasional clever writing. Like more of them, this "Boston Issue" contains much that is flat and insipid. Parody of both literature and situation has become a well-developed craft with the 'Poon staff; original humor...
...Pleasure" shrewdly parodies the present undergraduate draft uneasiness with a "chances of Being Drafted" chart based on World Situation, declining eyesight, and class standing. And Charles Robinson's cartoon depicts a truck telescoped into a crevice in the road, with the bedraggled driver looking up at "Pardon This Inconvenience While Massachusetts Forges Another . . ." The other cartoons merely break up their respective pages...
Walt Disney did not father the animated cartoon, but he has been its outstanding foster parent. Disney's child, however, seemed no brighter or more grown-up in 1950's Cinderella than in igsy's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Last week a different kind of movie cartoon was being turned out by a onetime Disney hand named Stephen Bosustow and his bustling United Productions of America...
Painter Morris delights the eye with rich splashes of hot & cold color that shine with the clean light of the Southwest He tickles the fancy with such wryly original subject matter as Three Ghosts Beating a Ghost. He draws in a freewheeling, somewhat wobbly cartoon style but his figures are unerringly placed upon the canvas; they go together so naturally as to seem more concerned with themselves and each other than with being in somebody's picture. More important, his balloon-headed people and quaking landscapes convey a good deal of Morris' dominating idea: the insecurity and aloneness...
...Chosen Ones, men who resent standing in line to buy a coffee at the Bick, it will be the worst does you'll ever have to choke down. The life of the dogfact may be amusing in a Bill Mauldin cartoon, but, Buster, show me the Patriotic Young American who would trade a Beauty-rest and a blonde for a hole in the ground...