Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there are those who take a long jump into more creative endeavors. After becoming a partner at one of Minnesota's largest firms, Greg Howard left law to become a cartoonist. His Sally Forth strip is syndicated in 300 papers nationwide. "My writing skills as a lawyer have been helpful in cartooning, but certainly I have to use a lot fewer words," says Howard, 45. "I used to get 50 pages for a brief. Now I get 50 words for a comic strip...
...Year to Date 16-8 Michael Stankiewicz Asst. Sports Editor Cornell 24-20 Penn 13-2 Princeton 30-16 Dartmouth 35-25 Year to Date 15-9 Casey J. Lartigue Cube Lord Harvard 34-31 Penn 23-9 Princeton 17-6 Yale 27-6 Bentley Boyd Cubist Cartoonist...
Admittedly, there is a risk in reviewing a comic strip that has run fewer than a dozen times. Usually you wait for a cartoonist to find his rhythm and his own particular voice. But Breathed has been cartooning a widely popular strip for most of this decade, so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of time. He has shown arrogance in flushing his successful "Bloom County" to begin this "Outland" strip. One naturally expects a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist to show us his best stuff early to quiet his critics...
...beat us so senseless that we begin to see his deep, hidden artistic motive. He may yet prove that there is humor in bad humor. If that is his aim, he is repudiating most of his last two years of "Bloom County," and he must be a very disenchanted cartoonist indeed...
...idea. So what if it was someone else's? The year before, a muscle-bound man from Krypton had landed in the pages of rival Action Comics and become an instant icon of pop culture. Sullivan may not have owned Superman, but he could clone it. He called in cartoonist Bob Kane, then 18, and asked for a similar "super-duper" character. Kane went home, tossed the movies The Mark of Zorro and The Bat Whispers into an imaginary blender with Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine, and dreamed up Batman. The whole process took a few days...