Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comic strips "Popeye the Sailor" and "Mickey Mouse" (Italian name: "Topolino"); in Italy. Agency: the Ministry of Popular Culture. Reason: they do not contribute to "exaltation of the imperial, Fascist and Mussolinian tone in which we live." Italian editors, spurred by the new Fascist drive for "racism," have also been inking over the hair of blond U. S. heroes like Flash Gordon and Joe Palooka...
With the exception of Bemelmans' studies under a picturesque painter and two trips back home, most of his" story is laid in and behind the swanky dining rooms of the Hotel "Splendide." As material for a comic opera or a sociological study in snob techniques and de luxe rackets, Bemelmans' revelations serve equally well...
Mars Attacks the World (Universal). Abbreviated version of last year's serial Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip and featuring Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, re-released to take advantage of the uproar about Actor Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast last fortnight...
...every city block, a chuckly little old gentleman with muttonchop whiskers and a kewpie curl atop his shining baldspot, turned his last handspring in the pages of Mr. Munsey's New York Press. A war-minded public scarcely noticed the passing of Foxy Grandpa, one of the great comic strip characters of an age that rejoiced also over the antics of Happy Hooligan, Buster Brown, Little Nemo...
...school of biff-plop-ratatat-tat cartooning was coming up fast. Today even spry old Foxy would be hard put to it to dodge the machine gun slugs and interplanetary rockets that whiz through the "comic" strips of the Thirties...