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Drawing Power : Knott, Ficklen, and McClanahan, Editorial Cartoonists of the Dallas Morning News
author
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Darden, Bob.
publisher
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Baylor University
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780918954374
ebook isbn13
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9780585135304
language
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English
subject
Cartoonists--Texas--Biography, American wit and humor, Pictorial, Knott, John Francis,--1878-1963, Ficklen, Jack,--1911-1980, McClanahan, William J.,--1907-1981, Dallas morning news.
publication date
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1983
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NC1305.D3 1983eb
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741.5/092/2
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Cartoonists--Texas--Biography, American wit and humor, Pictorial, Knott, John Francis,--1878-1963, Ficklen, Jack,--1911-1980, McClanahan, William J.,--1907-1981, Dallas morning news.
Page iii
Drawing Power
Knott, Ficklen, and McClanahan, Editorial Cartoonists of the Dallas Morning News
Robert F. Darden
Markham Press Fund Waco, Texas
Page iv
This volume is the sixteenth volume published by the Markham Press Fund of Baylor University, established in memory of Dr. L. N. and Princess Finch Markham of Longview, Texas, by their daughters, Mrs. R. Matt Dawson of Waco, Texas, and Mrs. B. Reid Clanton of Longview, Texas.
Copyright 1983 by Markham Press Fund of Baylor University Waco, Texas 76798 All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-86546 International Standard Book Number: 0-918954-37-1
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To my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Darden, Jr. Their love and unwavering support made this book possible.
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
John Francis Knott
5
Jack "Herc" Ficklen
29
William J. McClanahan
57
Comparison of the Artists
85
Appendix I: Review of the Literature
99
Appendix II: A Chronology of Notable Events in the History of Cartooning in the Dallas Morning News
99
Notes
101
Bibliography
107
Page ix
Acknowledgments
This book could not have been completed without the loving assistance of the cartoonists' families, especially Mrs. David Robb, Mrs. Mary Ficklen, and Mrs. Eloise McClanahan. Our goal is to see that these classic works of art are preserved and shared for new generations of editorial cartoon buffs.
Also important have been the contributions of the retired and current artists, writers, editors, and librarians at the Dallas Morning News, many of whom worked on their own time in memory of these three cartoonists. I appreciate the permission to reprint artwork and articles from the pages of the News.
To my wife Kathy who always worked extra hard so I would have more time to write;
To Dr. Douglas Starr and Keith Shelton, two of my professors at North Texas State University, who encouraged me to write a book people would read, instead of just another dry statistical treatise;
And to Tommy Turner, the Dallas Times Herald, the SMU Alumni Association, Kent Keeth, Nancy Cochran Murray, the Markham Press Fund of Baylor University, and the patient microfilm librarians in a half-dozen university libraries across Texasthanks!
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1 Introduction
Political cartoons came originally to the United States from the relatively free societies of Holland and Great Britain. The first American cartoonist of note was Benjamin Franklin, who produced the now-famous "divided snake" cartoon calling for colonial unity in 1754.1 Though the cartoon quickly caught the public's fancy, production of artwork in early newspapers was limited by the crude printing processes of the day.2
By the 1800s, only weekly illustrated magazines like Puck, Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's could run quality artwork on a regular basis. The greatest of the early editorial cartoonists, and still recognized as one of the craft's finest practitioners, was Thomas Nast. At the peak of his popularity in the 1870s, Nast defeated the powerful Tweed Ring in New York virtually single-handedly. Nast's cartoons on the corrupt group once forced their leader "Boss" Tweed to demand: "Let's stop them damn pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about memy constituents can't readbut damn it, they can see pictures!"3 Tweed was one of the firstwhether he knew it or notto understand the power of the editorial cartoon.
Historian Edwin Emery says that the reproduction capabilities of newspapers approximated those of magazines by 1900. Within a few years even Western newspapers were capable of producing quality artwork. And soon after the turn of the century the Dallas News hired a young artist named John Francis Knott.
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In the course of his lengthy career, Knott would go on to win several national cartooning awards and receive an honorable mention for the Pulitzer Prize. The two men who eventually succeeded him, William McClanahan and Jack "Herc" Ficklen, also achieved national acclaim.
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