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Reading today's [April 3] editorial cartoon, however, I was finally moved to comment on Conley's by-now familiar pattern. His "Monkey King" cartoon epitomizes the worst of both his editorial and strip cartoons: it is insulting, aesthetically unpleasing, but above all, unhumorous, uninsightful, and downright immature...
Worst of all, Conley, as usual, doesn't even make a clear point in this cartoon. If he is going to create something incendiary for the purpose of being inflammatory, he at least owes his reader some form of insight. Of course, knowing that Conley prefers to rabble-rouse and "martyr" himself to the conservative cause without any substance behind his claims, I am sure that he is pleased beyond words that his name appears as the target of yet another complaint to the Crimson (although never written as large as his ego demands it to be signed...
Disney's "Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill" is not a cartoon. But don't let that turn you off of this worthwhile adventure. It's 1905, somewhere in the American West, and Daniel Hackett (Nick Stahl) is chafing against life on his family's farm. "I hate this farm! It's just a dried-up, miserable piece of land!" he yells to his father, Jonas (Stephen Lang, looking like he just wandered in from a Biblical movie...
...subjects of political cartoons are humorous. "Americans are under the impression that if they look at a cartoon it's going to be funny," Danziger said...
Schwartz, who grew up in Brooklyn and has a master's degree in biochemistry, wrote for such early TV comedies as The Red Skelton Show and Ozzie and Harriet before creating his two biggest hits. Since then he has overseen a cottage industry-producing cartoon shows and TV movies based on Gilligan and the Bradys. He also has produced the occasional TV pilot, like 1982's Scamps, starring Gilligan himself, Bob Denver, as an unemployed television writer...