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...routine images of everyday life-a milk bottle, an advertising trademark, a scrap from a comic strip. These things are the same all over the nation; here indeed is expectable conformity. But upon closer scrutiny the Californians shared common aspects and a sort of group triumph: their stuff was even drearier than that of the Easterners. It might be labeled pop pop. The six: MELVIN RAMOS, 28, holder of an M.A. in art history from Sacramento State College, paints straightforward portraits of comic-book heroes and heroines. He professes a distinct liking for banality. "I'm a product...
When Charles Santangelo, a magazine and comic-book printer of the Charlton Press Inc. of Derby, Conn. (Atomic Mouse, Hush Hush, Secrets of Young Brides), returned from vacation last February, he got a double shock. He heard reports that the firm's composing-room employees had been "molesting" women workers in the plant-patting them, whistling at them, and making gamy comments about what Brooklyn calls "the built." He also learned that the eight men had joined the International Typographical Union. They were all fired. Last week, in a tough yet tongue-in-cheek decision, a National Labor Relations...
Surrounded by comics, crossword puzzles, cheesecake, dog stories and other newspaper fare, the new column in the Chicago Sun-Times looked as out of place as Plato on a comic-book rack. Even the questions from readers were formidable: What is truth? What is justice? What is love? The columnist's name and title were enough to send Smilin' Jack fans into a tailspin: Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. Yet the column has pulled 150 letters a week since it began appearing last October. This month the Sun-Times will syndicate Philosopher...
Launched by a Milanese comic-book publishing house after World War II, the first fumetto magazine, Grand Hotel, was simply a serialized cartoon romance. In 1947 a competitive firm substituted live models, posed them before a camera, and the fumetti art form was fixed...
Publisher William M. Gaines, a hearty, hefty man of 250 Ibs., launched Mad in 1952 as a sideline to the comic-book business he inherited from his father, M. (for Max) C. Gaines, who started the whole industry in the early 30s when he hit on the idea of selling reprinted newspaper comic sections for a dime. Using the standard comic formula-32 pages, newsprint, four colors, a 10? price tag-Mad was just holding its own when Gaines played a hunch in 1955, switched to semi-slick paper and higher quality black-and-white drawings, upped the price...