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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Human Soil Bank. The appeal of Peanuts lies in its sophisticated melding of wry wisdom and sly oneupmanship. Unlike such funny-page small fry as Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head is surmounted by a single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice...
MORE DENNIS THE MENACE (64 pp.]-Hank Ketcham-Holt...
...last week Dennis' antics had become so popular and struck such familiar chords that a $1 collection of his cartoons (Holt) had sold close to 121,000 copies in less than six months; Cartoonist Ketcham was readying Dennis for a 30-minute TV show; his freckled face was being printed on cocktail napkins, towels, glasses and cookie jars; and many a parent had already begun to warn a misbehaving child: "Don't be like Dennis...
...Make Me." Ketcham started cartooning as a Hollywood animator, got a job with Disney at $25 a week. In the Navy during the war, he did cartoons for service publications, later began a regular panel in the Satevepost called Half-Hitch. Dennis was born almost two years ago, when the Ketchams were sighing over their own Dennis, aged 4½, and Mrs. Ketcham remarked, "Dennis is a menace." Father Ketcham, who looks like Dennis' cartoon father, had little trouble taking it from there. There was Dennis standing at a police sergeant's elbow, a slingshot sticking...
Aggressive & Unchanged. Many of Ketcham's ideas for the cartoon no longer come from his son, who has begun to outgrow the caricature. Instead, Ketcham depends on his friend Bob Harmon, 34, a victim of muscular dystrophy, who keeps a steady stream of Dennis cartoon suggestions and captions flowing from his West Coast home, gets a large share of Dennis income. Dennis the Menace will never grow older, never acquire any brothers or sisters, or change in any way. Says Cartoonist Ketcham: "He'll be 4½ and unchanged all his aggressive little life...