Word: hams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fish, Fruit, Ham. It is in their approach to picture-making that the two part company. Picasso seldom needs a model, worries very little about what he means to communicate. Lorjou spits on abstraction; he paints from life, loads his work with literary ideas. "The art of Lorjou," says French Critic Waldemar George, "is a shock which returns us to reality." His new painting, wrote another reviewer, "is disturbing to the extreme . . . because of the oracle that it demonstrates and makes shout...
...nourishment, his picture boasts a table laden with fish, fruit, ham, chicken, lobster and a skinned hare. The rest of the painting seems to show that it takes all kinds to make a world: there are a broad-beamed model, a shepherd boy with a goat, a Negro with a wheelbarrow, a bishop, a gargoyle, a rat, a frog, a monkey, a barking dog and a girl with a bouquet, whom Lorjou describes as "the pretty woman one sees every day some place...
Success, his boundless faith in himself, and his instinct for defending Li'l Abner to the death, involved him in another conflict-a remarkable feud with his former employer Ham Fisher. Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, (to put it mildly) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated. Fisher, a man of Roman selfesteem, considered Capp an ingrate and a whippersnapper, and watched his rise to fame with unfeigned horror...
Capp sniped at Fisher through Li'l Abner. When Fisher had his nose remodeled, Capp gleefully insinuated a horse named "Ham's Nose-bob" into the strip. Last April he wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly about a cartoonist who had once employed him. He named no names, simply titled his piece, "I Remember Monster." The sound of battle finally became too loud, and the respective syndicates called for a peace treaty-which was gravely consummated last August by proxies for each side...
...gave up tobacco 25 years ago. He has a celebrated partiality for an old-fashioned before dinner. On a recent occasion, when a host served only sherry, Almond frowned, then cracked: "Well, I guess I'll have to have an old-fashioned sherry." He loves baked Virginia ham. The story goes that a soldier some years ago lost a Virginia ham that he was supposed to deliver to the general. In a panic, the soldier bought a ham from the nearest butcher, tried to palm it off as a genuine Old Dominion product. Almond detected the fraud, ordered...