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Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England, by Robin Cruikshank. Random, informal chapters on the sturdy characters and irritating characteristics of Queen Victoria's energetic subjects (TIME. March...
...stiff in those days) was capable of ejecting so huge or so sudden a flood of tears, and of drying it up a second later in such gales of laughter. Once, at the funeral of a beloved friend on a rainy day, Dickens found himself close to Cartoonist George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead...
...A.F.L.'s economist, Nelson Cruikshank, was even blunter. Cruikshank thought the practice of retaining earnings for capital investment rank injustice. Snapped Cruikshank: "Taxation by corporation without representation. Through prices paid for consumer goods, buyers are providing capital for industries over which they have no control and from which they receive no dividends...
British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank was probably wishing that his gifted director, David (Brief Encounter) Lean, had not been quite so conscientious in copying Dickens and his illustrator, George Cruikshank. Director Lean's Great Expectations was hailed wherever it was shown as a superbly Dickensian cinema (TIME, May 26, 1947). In Fagin's case, Lean actually followed Cruikshank more closely than Dickens. The film never calls Fagin a Jew (Dickens rarely called him anything else), but he is faithfully villainous and repulsive-and unmistakably...
What the show did prove was that a cartoonist's best strips are apt to look much like his worst. Not one panel had the uniqueness that marks a "great" illustrator-a George Cruikshank or Gustave Doré. But in their own ways a handful of the strippers were mighty good...