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...cartooning style which he uses to such great effect is reminiscent of that of Walt Kelly, the creator of Pogo. His forest scenes in volume one especially remind one of Kelly's Okefenokee swamp. All of Gonick's volumes, however, show a great attention to visual detail which only comes in the cartoonist who is able to sketch superbly but who's having a bit of fun drawing comics...
...young independents who organized the epochal Armory Show in 1913 -- Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, Walt Kuhn and others -- made sure that Ryder was the only American to share its central galleries with the new European masters: Matisse, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh. "There's only Ryder in American painting," remarked Kuhn. "No artist ever used more of the vital energies of the imagination than Ryder," wrote Marsden Hartley in 1936, "and no one was ever truer to his experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look...
...team's general counsel and is now, at 42, general manager of the sport's dominant franchise. Says Alderson: "We needed to build up a scouting system, develop quality players in our farm system and expand it." From the farm came a bumper crop: Canseco, McGwire and wizard shortstop Walt Weiss, who would be voted American League Rookies of the Year...
...rising cost of travel will inspire many people to spend their vacations at home instead of heading to places like Florida's Walt Disney World. "People are afraid," says Fred Wright, a Houston travel agent. "If travelers don't get the fares they want, they're not going." The jump in gas prices has forced Wright to change his own travel plans. He said he will make fewer trips to visit family members in Oklahoma City, a distance of 450 miles, because the price of a tank of gas has jumped from about $8 to $12. "It makes you think...
Cartoons have, moreover, simply got better. After the golden age in the 1940s and '50s, animation all but disappeared from movie theaters, while TV bastardized the genre with schlocky "limited animation." The current revival was sparked by Walt Disney Studios, which has more than tripled the size of its theatrical-animation unit since 1984 and ventured into TV cartoons for the first time. The busiest newcomer is Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which has produced cartoon features like An American Tail and maintains an animation unit of more than 300 in London. Even Hanna-Barbera, the K mart of TV cartooning...