Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
...darkened stage, and as he thinks of his old days in vaudeville, the burlesque stage comes alive. Six baggy-pants comedians put on a display of double takes, dance steps and routines, a chorus line reminiscent of the Old Howard girls parades across the stage, and a strip tease dancer bumps and grinds. Silvers relives his former role, complete with cane and straw hat, singing, mugging and thoroughly enjoying himself. And the audience enjoys itself...
After 49 years of political cartooning, Britain's famed David Low wanted a "try at new things and a change of air." The "new thing" turned out to be a weekly cartoon strip, which made its first appearance this week in Auckland's New Zealand Herald and other papers around the world, begins next week in Low's home paper, the London Daily Herald. The strip's title: World Citizen...
...cast of characters (e.g., Colonel Blimp, the trade-union workhorse, the escapist ostrich) which have helped make him the world's top political satirist, Low has added a tousle-haired, bewildered character called World Citizen. Said Strip-Father Low: World Citizen is an "ordinary fellow in contact with the difficulties and absurdities of the present day . . . contentious world." World Citizen is a young man who wears only a raincoat ("It would be all the better to draw him naked-life in the raw, you know"), no shoes ("He can't afford them"). He runs up against such absurdities...
...November, the Register & Tribune Syndicate expects to start syndicating World Citizen in the U.S. The new strip will not affect Low's political cartoons; he will still draw them. But he is having so much fun with his new venture that his pointed pen has already sketched out a year's supply of Citizen strips...