Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passport to Pimlico. The British at their comic best, spoofing nationalism, bureaucracy and themselves (TIME...
...With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
...books are a combined operation of the Office of International Information, which wrote the scripts and did the translating, and of 33-year-old M. Philip Copp, a former Manhattan art agent who underbid comic-book publishers for the $24,000 contract. To do the eight four-page, black & white biographies, Copp hired Artists Bruno Premiani and William Draut, two veterans of Wild West comics...
...most Far Eastern readers, it will be their first look at a comic book; for many, it will be their first look at a book. By printing the books on heavy paper instead of newsprint, the U.S. expects them to last until upwards of 50 people have thumbed through each...
Frank E. Baker '51, reported on Saturday as the new business manager of the Lampoon, is not the man in the job. It appears that the Funnymen, always eager to play the fools, really elected David Graham '52 to the post, and that Baker holds no office on the "comic" magazine...