Word: cartoonist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cartoonist for Krokodil, Moscow's sardonic magazine of humor-plus-propaganda, Vitaly Goriaev has many times bitterly lampooned Wall Street as the rotten heart of decadent capitalism. Last week, touring Manhattan as the guest of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Goriaev was candidly eager to see what the place is really like. Heading toward the Street in a taxicab, he thought he could sense the pace of city life accelerating. "Time is money," he said. "The closer you get to Wall Street, the more the tempo picks...
Goriaev and fellow traveling cartoonist Ivan Semeonov, who is also Krokodil's art editor, are in the U.S. for three weeks, invited by Dan Bowling, cartoonist for the Republican New York Herald Tribune and president of the U.S. cartoonists. The Russians' deft drawings of the U.S. are being carried by the HT, will appear in a LIFE article next week. The tourists attended the association's convention in Indianapolis last week, will also meet Walt Disney in Los Angeles...
Having lived (gasp!) in the vicinity (shudder!) of Harvard for the past eight years, cartoonist Al Capp feels that there is such a thing as a single "Harvard type." When one says "Harvard man" in a comic strip, according to Capp, a particular image immediately occurs to the reader. The public has fixed ideas, and "just as the Bowery stands for a bum or Wall Street stands for high finance, the name of Harvard stands for something--a sort of confused superiority...
Capp cites an occasion when he and fellow cartoonist Walt Kelly were invited to speak to the Harvard New Delhi Society." They were "horrified...
...girl. At best, the ensemble -long black woolen or cotton stockings, knickers that approach the knee, a vague navy-blue outer garment called a gym slip and a long-sleeved, high-necked blouse with a frumpy tie-makes her resemble a hockey goalie; at sorriest, a carelessly stuffed knackwurst. Cartoonist Ronald Searle immortalized the getup in his books on "St. Trinian...