CARTOONISTS
Sir,-Your correspondent M.B. is in error in suggesting that Minhinnick slavishly imitates Low. In any case Minhinnick is superior to Low as a cartoonist in technical excellence, wit and humour. I learn on good authority that the former was offered double his present remuneration to go abroad, but preferred to live in New Zealand.
EILRAY
(Wellington),
Sir,-I should like to comment on the letter, concerning New Zealand cartoonists, which appeared in a recent copy of The Listener. Your corréspondent has overlooked several important points. He accuses both Minhinnick and Clark of plagiarisms without stopping to remember the ald truism "there’s nothing new under the sun," which is heavily underlined by the fact that there are many able. cartoonists in the world to-day, all endeavouring to portray the political scene in the most succinct manner possible. M.B. has been misled into accusing Minhinnick of "slavishly imitating Low" by the fact that they both use the same type of people and draw them with an extremely forceful economy of line. But to say that this is slavish imitation is to: wrong a very able cartoonist. It happened that just prior to reading M.B,’s letter I was snorting with delight over Gertie "looking up at him. with a soft black eye," I do not know the work of the artist — Emmett — to whom M.B. refers, but I do know that Clark, with his delightfully grotesque people, makes _ illustrations | which couldn’t be bettered-do you remember the hypochondriac, his table littered with bottles, his face with pimples, and worried ear glued to the wireless, or the rehabilitation illustrations? Well! Doodling, as far as I can make out, is an Americanism meaning "aimless scribblings," and to accuse A. S. Pat-erson-whose cartoons have delighted me since I first saw them about 20 years ago-to accuse Paterson of doodling is simply futile. Each of his little pictures is a gem, full of verve and very often exquisitely humorous.
J.
HOWARD SCOTT
(Southland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 5
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