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...Cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg astounded the newspaper trade by suddenly abandoning the grotesquely exaggerated pictorial humor which had made him rich & famed. In place of the hilarious daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist...
Last year Cartoonist Goldberg was invited to leave his artistic retirement, continue the late Sidney Smith's Andy Gump for the New York News-Chicago Tribune syndicate. Comic Artist Goldberg was vexed at the idea of drawing another cartoonist's characters. Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected...
...this excitement is displayed against the familiar Goldberg background of monstrous art & architecture. Like so many successful newspapermen, Rube Goldberg started in San Francisco. In 1907 he went to Manhattan, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. By chance he one day filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, which showed a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. Comeback: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business." Thousands of subsequent Foolish Questions were published, followed...
Most famed of all Goldbergiana are his lunatic inventions. These preposterous drawings were first inspired by memories of complicated scientific apparatus which Rube Goldberg, in his days as an engineering student at the University of California, was unable to take seriously. To demonstrate his mad machines, Goldberg invented Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. Examples...
...January 1933 Philip Morris English Blends were put in the hands of U.S. dealers. The understanding was that Philip Morris was Rube's and Mac's "baby" and, if dealers loved Rube and Mac, they would not cut prices. They did not cut, then or later. But Rube Ellis never lived to see his cigaret burn bright. Few months after it was launched, he dropped dead, and Philip Morris was left to Mac McKitterick...