What Fools These Mortals Be: The Story of Puck, America’s First and Most Influential Magazine of Color Political Cartoons • 328 pages, Idw Publishing, $59.99 (Amazon, $40.64)
Once upon a time, mere mortal cartoonists held rockstar sway over American electoral politics via a wildly popular periodical that, early in its more than 40 year run. actually got their guy into the White House.
Let us now return to those halcyon days when men were men and cartoonists were gods.
These are your great-great grandfather’s political cartoons: dense, colorful and full of coded graphic allusions, mini-masterpieces as indecipherable to most modern day minds as The Daily Show’s Photoshopped on-screen graphics – arguably Puck’s progeny — would have been to our ancestors. But fret not, because all you really need to know to take a deep dive into this inky pool of polychromous political effulgence is that the message is always basically the same, most...
Once upon a time, mere mortal cartoonists held rockstar sway over American electoral politics via a wildly popular periodical that, early in its more than 40 year run. actually got their guy into the White House.
Let us now return to those halcyon days when men were men and cartoonists were gods.
These are your great-great grandfather’s political cartoons: dense, colorful and full of coded graphic allusions, mini-masterpieces as indecipherable to most modern day minds as The Daily Show’s Photoshopped on-screen graphics – arguably Puck’s progeny — would have been to our ancestors. But fret not, because all you really need to know to take a deep dive into this inky pool of polychromous political effulgence is that the message is always basically the same, most...
- 10/9/2014
- by Amanda Hass
- Comicmix.com
He's a bit scary, overly hairy, and he doesn't quite reflect the way Americans looks today, does he? As an icon created to help recruit young soldiers into military service--this particular version was created by James Montgomery Flagg in 1916--we'd say our patriotic persona Uncle Sam needs an upgrade. A few months ago we helped the public radio show Studio 360 get the word out about their challenge to Redesign Valentine's Day, and this week, they're launching another holiday redesign challenge for the Fourth of July.
Designers, illustrators, artists, we'd like to recruit You to help us retool a tired icon. Submit your ideas for a new Uncle Sam to the Studio 360 Redesigns Uncle Sam Flickr pool. Deadline is June 20, and the winners will be announced on the Fourth of July weekend. And for the songwriters in our midst, Studio 360 is also looking for a revamped national anthem.
Here are a...
Designers, illustrators, artists, we'd like to recruit You to help us retool a tired icon. Submit your ideas for a new Uncle Sam to the Studio 360 Redesigns Uncle Sam Flickr pool. Deadline is June 20, and the winners will be announced on the Fourth of July weekend. And for the songwriters in our midst, Studio 360 is also looking for a revamped national anthem.
Here are a...
- 6/7/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
Claudette Colbert drawing by James Montgomery Flagg on Photoplay; two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer, whose “tempestuous life” is described in the magazine, turned 100 last January Inside The Hollywood Fan Magazine: Interview with Anthony Slide Part I I recall reading a quite negative and personal story in The New Movie Magazine written by columnist Herbert Howe about MGM star Ramon Novarro. How could something like that have been allowed, especially since it involved a star at the all-powerful MGM? Any other glaring instances of such negative stories taking place from the mid-20s to the early ’50s, during the height of the studio era? The New Movie Magazine was one of the best fan magazines to emerge in the late 1920s/early 1930s. [...]...
- 5/5/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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