Word: cartoons
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...ones who go back to work after they've won the lottery--those people are crazy. Gary Larson, who abruptly quit producing the Far Side cartoon nearly nine years ago, has no intention of ever picking up a drawing pencil again. This is the first time in months he has seen his downtown Seattle office, which his business-manager wife and assistant use to filter the paperwork needed to pump out Far Side greeting cards. Larson, whose surreal, pothead-meets-scientist take on humans' overestimation of their species made cartoons cool, prefers his nondrawing, noncelebrated existence. "Life is good...
Flynt attained national notoriety with his 1988 Supreme Court triumph over Rev. Jerry Falwell, a social conservative who sued Hustler for publishing a cartoon suggesting that he had sex with his mother in an outhouse. The Court found in Flynt’s favor, establishing a precedent protecting obvious satire of a public figure even if it causes emotional distress. Eight years later, Flynt was immortalized by Woody Harrelson in the sympathetic Roman Polanski film, The People vs. Larry Flynt...
...Khruschev’s debates in a model kitchen are an allegory to the “sexual politics of meat.” And she claims that even the seemingly benign symbols of our carno-centric culture—in her slide show, a cartoon pig with barely noticeable eyelashes—are really insidious elements which further the oppression of women (and animals) by “feminizing animals and animalizing females...
...Kruschev’s debates in a model kitchen are an allegory to the “sexual politics of meat.” And she claims that even the seemingly benign symbols of our carno-centric culture—in her slide show, a cartoon pig with barely noticeable eyelashes—are really insidious elements which further the oppression of women (and animals) by “feminizing animals and animalizing females...
DIED. JAY MORTON, 92, writer and artist for the Fleischer animation studios who, after deciding against using lightning as a metaphor for speed, coined Superman's famous cartoon introduction, "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"; in Charlotte...