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...TATTOOED SAILOR (115 pp.)-André François-Knopf...
After eight years of putting up with aging (72) Painter Pablo Picasso, his peace doves and his two-faced doodlings, Fellow Artist Françoise Gillot abandoned the master at his studio on the Riviera, bundled herself and their two children, Claude, 6, and Paloma, 4, back to Paris. Said she: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...
...Tattooed Sailor, on the other hand, is vintage humor. It is a hilarious one-man cartoon show by Rumanian-born André François who sounds an unmistakably original note in the cacophony of cartoon comedy. Cartoonist François humor is pointed, whimsical, completely loufoque and never unkind. His sailor hero has been tattooed into a state of ineffable euphoria, making him inseparable from his lovely Lilly and probably inadmissible to the U.S., but only on moral grounds...
...showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work an "imbecility," and it was too much even for Communist Poet Louis Aragon, who wrote in Les Lettres Françaises: "Fougeron's works are hastily and clumsily painted . . . We must tell André Fougeron, 'Stop here...
...hesitant opening remarks completely surprised and delighted the Quebeqois M.P.s, and touched off a great burst of applause. "Mes salutations s'adressent également à mes amis Canadiens qui parlent Français," said Ike. "Je sais que je fais preuve d'une grande témérité en essayant de m'exprimer, si peu soit-il, dans cette langue...