Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are grim times for the funny pages. Last year Gary Larson stopped drawing the Far Side cartoons, and now Bill Watterson is retiring Calvin and Hobbes. "I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels," said the reclusive cartoonist in a letter to newspaper editors. "I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace with fewer artistic compromises." Ah, well, there's always Peanuts...
...campaign headquarters in 1968 insulted every hopeful in sight: "Scranton's a sissy,/ Nixon's a prick./ Romney's a moron,/ Goldwater's sick./ Nelson's your best man,/ Able and quick./ But who is our candidate?/ Upright Dick!" After Nixon's Inauguration, even the Washington Post's cartoonist Herblock gave him a shave (erasing the famously sinister Milhousian stubble shadow). Whatever else Nixon may have become in the years before his forced retirement, he was deemed for an instant to be presidential. Every President, including Bill Clinton, has a hard fight to live up to the adjective; even more...
...podium was bracketed by apostles of the extreme. The speaker who preceded him announced that federal environmental laws and the international biodiversity treaty would force mass relocations in the Midwest--80% of Wisconsin's population would have to move. The speaker after Carver proudly disclosed that he was the cartoonist whose leaflet, stacked at the auditorium entrance, reprised a conspiracy theory about the Rockefellers' and Rothschilds' controlling the world. Carver left the room to avoid hearing his remarks...
...face of a god from his Swiss-German ancestors, but he topped it with a slightly ridiculous pompadour that he wore as a chip on his brow after Washington Post cartoonist Herblock began to lampoon his hairstyle. He detested the media, yet he knew how to use them. He traveled widely, poking into English law, studying prisons, establishing a judicial-administration school. "I want to make things work right," he said when he was derided for spending too much time on the mechanics and not possessing the intellectual capacity to guide legal doctrine...
...Cartoonist Lynn Johnston, creator of the strip, notes that when Farley died she portrayed the Patterson family as being devastated, even though none of them cried. Johnston assumed that readers, when shown the different family members in various forms of grief, would feel their sadness. "There is more to the family's grief than I have space to show," she explains. She has received more than 500 letters about Farley's death...