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...LICHTENSTEIN, 38, of Highland Park, N.J., started his fine-arts career painting semi-abstract versions of Remington's cowboys and Indians, and later began to conceal comic-strip cartoon characters inside abstract-expressionist paintings. "This led me to wonder what it would be like if I made a cartoon that looked like a cartoon." In addition to cartoons-on-canvas, he began painting household objects-trash cans, washing machines, light cords-in the same flat technique. "I try to use what is a cliche -a powerful cliché-and put it into organized form," he says. By presenting common...
...were long isolated by their mountain barriers from the mainstream of U.S. life. Settling down to a slow-paced, hand-to-mouth and inbred way of life, they became famed chiefly for moonshine, revenooers, family feuds and hillbilly music. They became the inspiration for Erskine Caldwell novels and such comic-strip caricatures as Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner...
...funnies, those staples of the daily press, were invented some 60 years ago to make people laugh-or at least chuckle. But where are the pratfalls, "Pows!" and "Kerflooies!" of yesteryear? Some comic-strip artists, recalling a simpler era, still let their cartoon creatures play it for laughs. But a growing number of characters in the funnies are much too busy for such nonsense. They are earnestly fighting the cold...
Ramble in Reality. "When the program first started," recalls sometime Adman Funt, "we used to just ramble in reality." But gradually the show got more complicated and developed a kind of comic-strip surrealism. A stooge would enter a florist's shop, order orchids and then eat them to the consternation of other patrons. Or Funt, in the guise of a barber, would say, "You know, this is the first time I ever shaved a man." Once a customer threw off the sheet, chased Funt with a razor. "You can only aggravate a guy so far," he discovered. "Beyond...
Secret Chuckles. Throughout the U.S., several hundred newsmen spend 30 to 35 generally dreary hours each week watching TV as part of their jobs as critics. They reach an impressive, if not impressionable, newspaper readership that rivals in number the legion of comic-strip fans. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby is syndicated in more than 90 papers, the Los Angeles Mirror-News''s Hal Humphrey in 87; in San Francisco...