A curtsy to cartoon royalty Posted: Jan 28, 2008 18:37:28
The Boston Globe; Feb 8, 1993; Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff; 1,112 Words ... punchline, anyway. Addams, Booth and Chast are three of 20 cartooning royals, representing multiple generations of New Yorker-affiliat ... magazine humor, most of which went unpublished, he turned to cartooning and sold his first work to the New Yorker in 1981. Since ... fiction, in his case) but gave it up to ...
Great American Cartoons," through March 8 at the Art
Institute of Boston, 700 Beacon St., near Kenmore
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Much as it pains old fop Eustace Tilley and new belle Tina Brownto admit it, there will always be a percentage of faithful New Yorkersubscribers who swear they never read the magazine, they only look atthe cartoons.
Then again, there are worse reasons to subscribe. At leastCharles Addams, George Booth, Roz Chast et al. never translated epicpoetry from its original version in Urdu. Or reconstructed theentire geological history of Teaneck, N.J., down to the last flake ofmica.
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