Word: ick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often it is pathetic rather than funny. The people it depicts are simple, worried U. S. proletarians: weedy, bedraggled cowhands, tintypical Americans of a generation ago. Some of them (the shambling, baggy Negro Big Ick, the fiddle-case-footed shop foreman "Bull of the Woods," the blowzy, ingeniously self-thwarting moppet "Worry Wart") are as real to newspaper readers as their own cousins. Its homely humanity, bleak realism, and salty, Mark Twainish humor have attracted the attention of Americana-collecting highbrows, have earned for its author the title "Will Rogers of the Comic Strip...
...Williams himself seldom goes to town, hasn't visited a big city in nearly ten years, principally because he hates to change from his blue jeans to store clothes. Last week, while city readers were chuckling over his latest pictures of Big Ick and Worry Wart, Jim Williams was busy with a branding iron, sizzling his K4 and Lazy C Bar brand into the hides of this spring's crop of heifers...
...first "press conference," five-month-old Harold Ickes Jr., spit-&-image son of the Secretary of the Interior, posed for photographers (see cut), was irreverently labeled by newsmen "Young Ick" and "Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis...