Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the world of French Cartoonist Jean Effel (concocted from the initials of his real name, François Lejeune), whose whimsies about the first two chapters of Genesis have made bestselling booklet after booklet in France. He also collaborated with Czech Movie Director Eduard Hofman to make a 90-minute feature film out of the series. The result, called The Creation of the World, took top prize for animated cartoons at this year's Venice Festival, and won the Silver Gondola for excellence awarded for educational and cultural films...
Countered Rome's pro-Communist press: Osservatore's kind of "strict ideological defense'' is partly responsible for the low state of Italian culture; as for Effel's pictures, they are "breezy," "charming," "graceful," "creative." Said Cartoonist Effel. a militant left-winger: Osservatore Romano has every right to criticize the film, although "they never seem to worry about religious ceremonies shocking the layman." Back came Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This...
...tattoo continues, familiar information floods the C. of C.: Milton Caniff is a cartoonist who draws a comic strip about Steve Canyon, a tall, blond, slightly stuffy Air Force aviator. Steve and his buddies will be portrayed in a new show on NBC television this fall. Best of all (boomlay, boomlay, boom) there is a local tie-in: Miss Columbia Mizzou, raffish blonde who shows up intermittently in the strip, is named after the University of Missouri, near which, in Caniff's fable, she once slung hash...
...high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...
...Quaker parents on an Ohio farm, Will Mullin grew up in Los Angeles, where he was enough of an athlete to run up an impressive blight of injuries, including ankles ruined at squash and softball. He decided by the seventh grade that he wanted to become a sports cartoonist, went directly from high school in 1920 to learn lettering in a sign shop ("Women's Philippine Underwear, 79?"), got his first newspaper job in 1923 doing illustrations for Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (now the Herald & Express...