Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again-even if some didn't like the new Picasso any more than they liked the last one. His mangled women and monsters of the war years had vanished like a nightmare. The nine new paintings were bright still lifes done with a comic strip's economy of line and color, and airy pastoral scenes with pipe-playing centaurs, a goddess and dancing goats. Picasso had painted his new pictures on the scene, behind locked doors (TIME, Jan. 13). The castle's old guide, Pierre, used to tell tourists that there was "a crazy artist...
...Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse. Last week, on both counts, it disappeared for a week from the columns of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press. Editor Edward Towner Leech had taken umbrage at a broad burlesque of the U.S. Senate...
According to Cartoonist Capp, it was the first time Li'l Abner had ever been cut out of the 420 daily and more than 500 Sunday papers which buy the strip. (Two other papers also objected to one of last week's strips.) Said Capp: "If anything is public property, it's the U.S. Senate. We elect 'em, and we pay 'em. Anyway, the whole sequence is just a cleaned up version of the Hughes investigation, during which the U.S. Senate was a more ludicrous, comical spectacle than any artist would dare draw...
...coffee port of New Orleans, Publisher Ralph Nicholson of the Item deleted the name of Detective Dick Tracy's current villain "Coffyhead" from every strip, making gibberish out of some of the speeches and captions. ("Coffyhead" is a no-good who earned his nickname by always brewing his evil deeds over a cup of coffee.) Publisher Nicholson explained that he considered the name "a nasty and unfair reflection on a fine beverage...
Last week things were looking up. Francis X. Bushman was a hit playing a gregarious ham actor called Major Carson (reminiscent of the comic strip's Major Hoople) on The Rexall Summer (Theater. In a sudsy serial, Bob and Victoria, he oozed kindly wisdom persuasively enough to insure himself a berth on that show for some years to come. "My radio family," he explained cheerfully, "is so longevious that at this rate I should be in soap opera for 30 years...