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Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations made by the Fleischer brothers in the 1930s and ’40s. When E.C. Segar’s daughter saw the movie, Mr. Feiffer told The Comics Journal […]
Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes Courtesy of Ann Telnaes A Washington Post cartoonist has quit her role at the paper, saying that her bosses blocked publication of a satirical cartoon that depicted billionaires, including one resembling Post owner Jeff Bezos, kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said in a blog post […]
In 1997, the National Trust named Leunig as one of Australia’s 100 living treasures, alongside the likes of Sir Donald Bradman and Slim Dusty. Loading Leunig described his cartoons as regressive, humorous, messy, mystical, primal and vaudevillian. Cathy Wilcox, president of the Australian Cartoonists Association and a contributor to this masthead, said she was saddened […]