Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cartoonist Bud Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) found many a stray dog last year on his newly-purchased Carmel, N. Y., estate. He ordered his Negro butler, James Bell, to get rid of them. This Butler Bell did, darkly, until only one dog was left. When, last week, he got around to this dog, Mr. Fisher's caretaker, Frank Candee, protested. Caretaker Candee had become attached to the dog. Butler Bell paid no heed, raised his rifle, killed the creature. Caretaker Candee, irate, got out a knife. Butler Bell, standing in the driveway, raised his gun again and fired five times more...
Rollin Kirby,New York World (Pulitzer paper) drew the best cartoon ("Tammany!"-showing famed Republicans, some in prison stripes, holding up their hands in horror-reproduced in TIME, Oct. 15)-$500 cash. It was Cartoonist Kirby's third Pulitzer prize...
...Cartoonist Percy Crosby, who is Skippy's medium, risked a good deal putting the young man into a novel. And from the nature of the writing, it looks as if Mr. Crosby means to risk more yet and have a cinema Skippy. The result so far, however, is only added testimony to Skippy's greatness. In spite of a Plot and a Social Thesis, which Mr. Crosby has introduced because most novels have them, Skippy stays about the same. He does not get selfconscious, as proved by the fact that in 335 pages he only utters once...
...Cartoonist Hix does not seem quite so able with his pencil as Cartoonist Ripley. Astounder Ripley, after nine years, does not seem quite so astounding as fresh Astounder...
Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from...