The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . C. G. BUSH OF THE WORLD. THE DEAN OF ACTIVE AMERICAN CARTOONISTS. CENTURY IN CARICATURE 357 mew, Carter, Steele, Powers, Barritt—and to name these mendoes not nearly exhaust the list of those artists whose cleverwork has amused and unconsciously influenced hundreds ofthousands of thinking American men and women. There are interest and significance in the fact that a majorityof the ablest caricaturists of to-day are devoting their talentsalmost exclusively to the daily press. It is an exacting sort ofwork, exhaustive both physically and ment
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . C. G. BUSH OF THE WORLD. THE DEAN OF ACTIVE AMERICAN CARTOONISTS. CENTURY IN CARICATURE 357 mew, Carter, Steele, Powers, Barritt—and to name these mendoes not nearly exhaust the list of those artists whose cleverwork has amused and unconsciously influenced hundreds ofthousands of thinking American men and women. There are interest and significance in the fact that a majorityof the ablest caricaturists of to-day are devoting their talentsalmost exclusively to the daily press. It is an exacting sort ofwork, exhaustive both physically and mentally. The mere WILLIE AND HIS -What on earth ar: you doing in there. Willie??Teddy put me in. He saya its the be3t place for i idea of producing a single daily cartoon, week in and weekout,—thirty cartoons a month, three hundred and sixty-fivecartoons a year, with the regularity of a machine,—is m itselfappalling. And yet a steadily growing number of artists areturning to this class of work, and one reason for this is thatthey realize that through the medium of the daily press theirinfluence is more far-reaching than it possibly can be in the 358 CENTURY IN CARICATURE pages of the comic weeklies, and that at the same time theexigencies of journalism allow more scope for individualitythan do the carefully planned cartoons of papers like Puckor Judge. Speed and originality are the two prime requisitesof the successful newspaper cartoon of to-day, a maximum ofthought expressed in a minimum of lines, apposite, clear-cut, and incisive, like a well-written editorial. Indeed, ourleading cartoonists regard their art
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