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...Batter was upset by a post on the Harvard transfer e-mail list asking for applications to a student-run college consulting firm.“It’s a crime against students who need help the most,” says Batter, who is also a Crimson cartoonist. “It’s exactly 100 percent the opposite of what should be happening in our admissions process.” Batter, who originally eschewed Harvard because the financial aid program wasn’t generous enough, thinks that systems like these give...
...Rand McNally, Milton Bradley, and Paramount Pictures.In addition, the collection contains Marjorie Buell’s artistic projects before Little Lulu, including her first cartoon—drawn before age seven—350 pre-Lulu cartoons from 1920 to 1935, and a high school yearbook to which the cartoonist contributed as art editor.The two brothers would sometimes watch their mother as she drew in the studio off her bedroom, Lawrence Buell recalled.“If we stared for very long, she’d shoo us away (gently) so as not to break concentration,” Buell...
...small, excitable woman with large glasses, Chast is arguably the greatest living practitioner of a minor art, that of the magazine cartoon, and her work is now collected in a very large book titled Theories of Everything (Bloomsbury; 394 pages). Generally speaking, a cartoonist is somebody who draws little pictures that make people laugh. Chast's drawings do that, but they also do much more...
Chast, 51, wasn't supposed to be a cartoonist. When she was at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1970s, she wanted to be a painter. "Cartooning was not anything that was looked on very positively," she says. "You were trying to communicate with people, which was very tacky. Definitely a no-no." Fortunately, she wasn't very good at painting, so she turned her efforts elsewhere. Some artists take years to evolve their individual sensibility, but Chast was Chast from the very first cartoon she sold, which was titled "Little Things." It's the first cartoon...
...long as we’re tossing out trite clichés, remember this one: There’s nothing new under the sun. Neither this cartoon theme, nor this problem is original to your cartoonist...