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Slow Ball Cartoonist - The Extraordinary Life of Indiana Native and Pulitzer Prize Winner John T. McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune (Paperback)
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Slow Ball Cartoonist - The Extraordinary Life of Indiana Native and Pulitzer Prize Winner John T. McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune (Paperback)
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Slow Ball Cartoonist takes readers on a journey to an earlier era
in America when cartoonists played a pivotal role each day in
enabling major daily newspapers to touch the lives of their
readers. No American cartoonist was more influential than the
Chicago Tribune's John T. McCutcheon-the plainspoken Indiana native
and Purdue University graduate whose charming and delightful
cartoons graced the pages of the newspaper from 1903 until his
retirement in 1946. This book chronicles McCutcheon's
adventure-filled life, from his birth on a rural small farm near
Lafayette in 1870, to his rise as the "Dean of American
Cartoonists." His famous cartoon, Injun Summer, originally
published in 1907, was a celebration of autumn through childlike
imagination and made an annual appearance in the Tribune each fall
for decades. McCutcheon was the first Tribune staff member to earn
the coveted Pulitzer Prize for his poignant 1931 cartoon about a
victim of bank failure at the height of the Great Depression. Born
with an itch for adventure, McCutcheon served as a World War I
correspondent, combat artist, occasional feature writer, portrait
artist, and world traveler. While the gangly and tall McCutcheon
looked the part of the down-home characters featured in his
cartoons, the world-wise flavor of his work influenced public
opinion while making readers smile. Hard-hitting and even vicious
attacks on public figures were common among his contemporaries;
however, McCutcheon's gentle humor provided a change in pace, thus
prompting a colleague to borrow a phrase from baseball and anoint
him "the slow ball cartoonist." Slow Ball Cartoonist is a timeless
story about a humble man who made the most of his talents and lived
life to the fullest, being respectful and fair to all-including the
targets of his cartoonist's pen.
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