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...Creator of Pogo is tall, moonfaced Walter Kelly, 37, who has a quick ear for fantastic word twists and a gentle eye for the gentler foibles of mankind. Kelly, who spent five years as a cartoon animator for Walt Disney, began drawing Pogo in a daily strip in 1948, while he was art director of the New York Star. After the Star folded, the Post-Hall Syndicate rescued Pogo and started him on his rapid climb...
...Capp, the cartoonist-creator of Li'l Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob seldom slobbers and in the 20th Century even monsters are apt to use both Vitalis and Zip, grease themselves liberally with Mum or Dew, and consult a dentist twice a year. Capp is not fooled. At times, in fact, he seems to suspect that the world is peopled exclusively by bloated big businessmen, brainless editors, venal politicians, sadistic cops, cruel stepmothers and shambling, leaping...
...Part. All this wealth, recognition and acclaim is in dramatic contrast to the record of Capp's earlier years. Li'l Abner's creator, who was born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Conn., in 1909 (he shortened his name to Capp in signing the strip, changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest living...
...attempt to explain a contemporary painting is a difficult task," said Gropius. "It represents a psychological mood in the mind of the creator, who tries, by interplay of lines and colors, to reproduce that mood in the mind of the beholder. An artist cannot be expected to show literary genius as well...
There's a story drifting around the Graduate Center to the effect that the creator of one of the works of art displayed in the Harkness Building walked up to a picture of his last week, started, paled, and with ill concealed anger turned the picture up end down. He complained that it was hanging upside down...