Word: cartoonist
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...personal stake in Lenny Bruce for nearly a half-century. I first heard about him in 1959 from the cartoonist Arnold Roth, who was a crucial contributor to the Harvey Kurtzman magazine Humbug, and who lived in Philadelphia, as I did. With a kindness that I think back on with gratitude and bafflement, he befriended this gauche but eager 14-year-old and, in the genial tutorial that was our conversations, recommended that I listen to Lenny's albums...
...cartoonist-humorist in me got subsumed by the novelist who’s trying to really give a world picture with all the elements that he sees in life itself,” he said...
DIED. Donald Reilly, 72, cartoonist for magazines including the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker, for which he drew 16 covers; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Reilly mocked the foibles of anxious yuppies and overwrought parents in edgy yet goofy pieces. In one, a woman standing with her young son near a museum's dinosaur skeleton warns him, "They got extinct because they didn't listen to their mommies...
...time Moulitsas makes his first official appearance, it?s after those cordial conferencees have been milling around at a buffet reception for an hour or so, drinking from the cash bar and getting glittery-eyed. The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow warms up the crowd, reading his cartoons aloud as they are projected on giant screens behind him. It doesn?t seem that vital to pay attention, but halfway through the act, a Yearly Kos volunteer stops by the conversational knot I?m in and shushes us. It?s the first sign of militancy and while they may not be reaching...
...like to point out that while none of the above is actually true, wouldn’t it be cool if it were? Priya would like to give a brief shout-out to GWB: “G-Dubs—you’re the best friend a cartoonist could ever have—keep up the good work.” Prepare for Priya’s artistic creations on Fridays...