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Most of Punch's cartoons during World War II have dealt with wartime nuisances on the home front. In the Almanack, the liquor shortage is epitomized by a gloomy Saint Bernard dog whose barrel bears the sign, "No Whisky." The endless rationing and shortages inspired a cartoon of a fish vendor offering a huge fresh sea serpent for sale...
Like his readers, Mr. Punch refuses to admit that the rigors of a last-ditch war are anything more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...
...eight, he moved with his mother and brother to a homestead near Phoenix, Ariz., at nine wrote an anti-war poem. He got his first job as an artist at twelve, drawing posters for a rodeo. While in high school at Phoenix, he took a correspondence course in cartooning, sold his first cartoon for $10. He left high school without graduating, went to Chicago, worked variously as a truck driver, dishwasher and menu designer to pay for his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. He entered the Army from the Arizona National Guard in 1940, got married while...
Last week, the Democrats contributed a cartoon showing Governor Dewey speaking from a platform that concealed a fatuous-looking cellar gang. Included in the gang was Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the news-slanting Chicago Tribune, and cousin of Daily News Publisher Joe Patterson. Captain Patterson forthwith called off the Battle Page. His reasons: below-the-belt hitting, fear of libel...
Newspapermen, long familiar with the News'?, aggressive method of fighting libel threats, were inclined to agree with Bob Hannegan. But few thought that hard-headed Joe Patterson either wanted to spare his readers below-the-belt copy, or minded too much the family slight in the cartoon on Cousin "Bertie." Best guess was that astute Captain Patterson wanted no side music to distract attention from the blaring, anti-New Deal tune played daily by his accomplished trio of Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor and Columnist John O'Donnell...