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...many ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in Chicago he drew imitation Charles Dana Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired...
Would the boiler blow Dick Tracy through the roof? Would Joe Palooka best the Nazis? In Venezuela such questions called urgently for an answer. But the ships from New York were slow in coming, and many a Venezuelan newspaper was running short of comic-strip mats. While the comic-strip heroes teetered on various brinks, Venezuelan editors heard with dismay that a ship with a supply of mats had been sent to the bottom by a pigboat...
...many people in Venezuela last week the comic-strip shortage was a sudden reminder that the war was getting to be a serious business...
Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...
...MIGHTY BLOCKHEAD-Frank Gruber -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Book pitchmen Cragg and Fletcher are plunged into a double murder and blackmail case that involves civil war in a New York comic-strip factory, slugfests in Iowa roadhouses and gangster hideaways. The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant...