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...arrive at the scene of the crime just in time to save poor Lois. There would always be a moment of sexual tension and a brief query as to where the heck Clark goes everytime something happens, and then, bang-o, you would come to the end of the comic book, or the 6 o'clock news would start...
...that Brooks requires something specific-like an old movie genre -on which to focus his talent. His attempt to make an extravagant musical number out of the Inquisition, a reprise of his famous Springtime for Hitler number in The Producers, is one of the worst calculated comic turns in movie history. We have no distance-not in our time-from the spectacle of people being subjected to pain for their beliefs...
...Lichtenstein was always the most cerebral of the Pop artists. Yet his images in the 1960s, taken from comic strips and ads-"I know how you must feel, Brad!" whispers the enormous girl's mouth to its exclusively art-world audience-were once rebuked for their dumbness, their lack of "real" art content. To mimic the processes of commercial art, to take a common image and replicate it on canvas, much larger, with hard-edged line and stenciled arrays of Ben Day dots in primary colors for shading: Could this be art? Is the Pope Catholic...
...given set of pictorial mannerisms, faultlessly sustained, often funny and always dryly intelligent, all of them directed toward reducing art to a sequence of predictable signs. Anything can be turned into a Lichtenstein by the application of those hard outlines, Ben Day dots and primary colors-not only comic strips, but Greek temples, mirrors, entablatures, still lifes and other people's paintings...
...devoting more time to the birdbrains in my comic strip Shoe. I would like to devote less time to the birdbrains on the national and international stages." So said Jeff MacNelly, 33, last week as he announced that he was giving up regular political cartooning. From his editorial-page perch at the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, MacNelly had drawn and quartered Washington wildlife through eleven years and four Administrations. His winsome wit and goofily graceful draftsmanship had won him two Pulitzer prizes and syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine...