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...most important part of a cartoon is of course, the idea. Its presentation, while important is secondary. There are three main divisions into which cartoons are classified as to their subject-matter naturally fall. There is the political cartoon, the straight narrative cartoon, usually centered around some joke, and the cartoon which is a commentary on some point which is true to life. It is the last group that I place my work...
...political cartoon is a sort of picture editorial. The narrative cartoon is by far the easiest form. The cartoonist can work a series around the adventures of certain characters, like the Gumps or the Joneses, or use a joke as the basis of the cartoon as Bud Fisher does so often in "Mutt and Jeff." These methods are comparatively simple...
...caricature President von Hindenburg during the recent April Fools' Day spree of lampooning German statesmen (TIME, April 11), were obliged to retract their error last week when attorneys for President von Hindenburg began suit for libel against the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne (Red Flag) because of a cartoon it published on April 1. Rote Fahne depicted a huge bull standing before three white-clad butchers, with the caption: Hindenburg in Civil Dress Reviews the Companies of Honor on Remembrance Day. Whatever this meant (and the President's attorneys professed ignorance) it at least implied that the Herr President...
...Mayor Dever and his backer George Brennan he howled: "Dever and Brennan are a disgrace to the Irish blood. They are the worst two-faced hypocrites who ever came to my attention. They circulated a cartoon called 'Thompson Kissing a Negro.' Is that what Dever and decency means...
...Norwood ("Ding") Darling was ejected from Beloit College (Beloit, Wis.) for a disrespectful sketch of a professor. He settled in Des Moines, Iowa, and has not budged thence for years. His most famed cartoon: "The Long, Long Trail" (reprinted universally on the anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's death...