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...size, its dull coloring and its air-war theme, the picture was clearly intended to invite comparison with Picasso's famous canvas of the Spanish civil war, Guernica. Lorjou is no admirer of his elder. "Picasso is called a god," he storms. "In reality he is a monster...
...Abner. When Fisher had his nose remodeled, Capp gleefully insinuated a horse named "Ham's Nose-bob" into the strip. Last April he wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly about a cartoonist who had once employed him. He named no names, simply titled his piece, "I Remember Monster." The sound of battle finally became too loud, and the respective syndicates called for a peace treaty-which was gravely consummated last August by proxies for each side...
...characters. The content of Addams' cartoons is monotonously repetitive; he simply switches the characters from one old situation to another. Addams shows little of the originality, the fresh viewpoint, so common to his companion New Yorker cartoonists. Unless you are bemused by the deformed and the deformer, "Monster Rally" may convince you that Addams does not belong in the same league...
...Green hordes invading Cambridge this weekend will be greeted with wild parties, Wellesley maidens, and a monster post game victory rally in Harvard Square, Coulter said...
...Lighter Side. Two new books answer most of the questions about Addams and his work: Monster Rally, a collection of 91 of the best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition to his essays on such subjects as the Grand Guignol and Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Kobler includes a biographical sketch of his illustrator...