Word: cartoonishly
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...introduction, Eudora Welty refuses to make excuses for her amateurism. The lighting is often poor; many of the pictures are blurred; what composition there is cartoonish and static. The photographs are more than anything snapshots, where the need to record, and more, the fear of losing dominates the impulse. That they are snapshots throws the emotion behind the subjects into a peculiarly desperate emphasis, which a more professional rendition might have mitigated in favor of a better whole. The effect is heartbreaking--the lighting, the blurring, the posing--one knows one is looking backward through a great deal of time...
PHILIP HEFFERTON, 30, specializes in cartoonish depictions of U.S. bank notes. "There is so much to explore in American money," he explains. A typical Hefferton, called Sinking George, is a rough representation of a dollar-bill fragment with Washington's head sinking out of sight. Hefferton's favorite bill, however, is the twenty, because it has a "free feeling...
Michael Biddle is the exhibit's most imaginative contributor. His pictures tend to be ghoulish or cartoonish. Charles Addams is a notable influence. The ink and wash study of a farmer looking at a hanging man struck this reviewer as one of his better works, in many ways reminiscent of Ben Shahn. The skating waiters are drawn with delicate line and much wit. Biddle's work can be characterized as naive and childish. This does not preclude some clever sketching. His main fault is sloppiness...
...International Settlements, is one of Mr. Wiggin's old friends. Often have they dined, motored, played golf together. Together they present the perfect embodiment of a pair of U. S. bankers as an anti-capitalist cartoonist would draw them. But about their minds, of course, there is nothing cartoonish. Nor are they hereditary exponents of Capitalism, but self-made representatives and leaders of a system in which all their countrymen have a stake...