POPULAR CARTOONS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22518, 28 September 1938, Page 18

POPULAR CARTOONS

_IIjI^INN ICK ’S VARIED ; ;r WORK a c art°° ns are among the best forms of comment on current pO** 1 ®! ’gbty demand not only simple «Vf* I TI,f e *si v e drawing-but an excepto seize on the salient news and present them in holds attention and crystal- • tr*y*L u jar attitudes. They inform as much as they expre* °t Minhinnick, whose carwidely known throughout tOO°**«aland through their daily pub,f in metropolitan newspapers. M •T’he Press,” are deservedly

popular because they possess these qualities. A large number of the best of them has now been collected and published in booklet form. Those chosen are all fairly recent, and most of them are still timely because of the current interest in the election campaign. The political comment implied in them is admirably expressed, in a U'ay that not only gets jto the essentials of a situation, but also unfailingly arouses laughter. Minhinnick’s humorous versions of the faces and figures of members of the Government—and the Opposition—are masterpieces of observation and clean-cut comic statement. The booklet also includes a number of tfce popular “John Citizen cartoon strips.