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Judging from the reactions on the part of newspaper editors and readers, the controversy is definitely heated. The Boston Globe has been prefacing the cartoon with an editor's note claiming that "News organizations also looked into the allegations and found them to be unproven ... [however] it nonetheless contains no information about the investigation that could be determined to be factually inaccurate." About 20 or 25 papers stopped running the strip for the duration of the Quayle sequence and three canceled the strip permanently...
Four of the artists have joined the big leagues of national syndication within just the past three years. The most successful is Ray Billingsley, 34, of Manhattan, whose Curtis strip follows the adventures of a youngster growing up in an inner-city neighborhood; the cartoon appears in 200 papers, including the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. Jump Start, by Robb Armstrong, 29, of Philadelphia, chronicles the day-to-day experiences of Joe and Marcy Cobb, a young working-class black couple, in such papers as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Dallas Morning News. Stephen Bentley, 37, of Duarte...
CINEMA A Disney Beauty and The Addams Family: the cartoon spirit lives...
...unease grew worse during the 1988 presidential campaign. Bush resisted his handlers' desire to schedule repeat visits to the state, understandably reluctant to appear at campaign stops alongside such silly cartoon characters as the Three Little Pigs and a trio of purple, rug-cutting California Raisins. Luckily for Bush, his advisers prevailed: he narrowly won the state, eking out a 51% majority with the help of last-minute appearances by home state hero Reagan, two of them the day before the election...
...partner Apollo Investment Fund shelled out $320 million for the studio -- and perhaps more important, its 3,000 half-hours of cartoon programming. Going back to the 1950s, the treasure trove could form the basis of a long-standing Turner dream: a worldwide all-cartoon channel...