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Show CARTOONIST TURNS ARTIST TO CAPTURE UTAH CANYON SCENERY Not all cartoonists are sour-pussed, dried-up old crabs, howling for quiet and browbeating their offspring when an "idea" begins to glimmer. That's the way they are often depicted in cartoons and movies. Miss Nadine .Seltzer, charming and vivacious creator of one of the most devDish little imps the comic jvages ever saw, is exactly the opposite. She has a wonderful sense of j humor which she transmits to her "Sweetie Pie" comic and her charming personality and graciousness are reflected in her pleasant demeanor and cheerful approach to every-day jiie. Miss Seltz.er is visiting in Milford at the home of her brother and sister in law, Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor and Mrs. Sheldon Seltzer, signing autographs for young fans and modestly expressing amazement at the popularity of her comic, "Sweetie Pie." "Sweetie Pie" has zoomed in popularity with comic readers. It depicts a mischievous- little female imp who makes life alternately al-ternately miserable, hilarious, and puzzling for her parents and her huge, elephant of a dog, Schutlz. The cartoon appears in newspapers all over (he United States, distribute! by NEA Syndicate, and h-is recently recent-ly been publi -,he,l mi book form soon to reach the local newsstand news-stand at The Corner Drug. Miss Seltzer in a nativi of Illinois, who migrated to California. Cali-fornia. She began her cartooning cartoon-ing at the suggestion of a friend and sent her first batch of cartoons car-toons to NEA with her tongue in her cheek. She didn't expect them to be accepted for she had had no art or cartoon training, developing her skill from a natural nat-ural love of drawing which she had nurtured from child-h child-h ood . NEA accepted the cartoons, signed her to a six-month contract con-tract with renewal option, and a few weeks ago renewed the contract for another year. "When I first signed the eon-tract," eon-tract," Nadine' recalls, "I was scared, and worried to death about keeping enough ideas ahead to mec.l the deadlines. But the ideas for the humorous Continued on Page Six HERE'S MORE ABOUT ) NADINE SELTZER Continued from Page One cartoons and captions began to come easier with experience, and sometimes now I'll go for clays and days without thinking up anything for a cartoon, then all of a sudden they'll start striking, and I sit down and wind up with enough for 30 or 40 more cartoons." She never uses ideas sent in by professional gag writers, Miss Seltzer explained, and even hesitates to read other cartoons because she fears she night unconsciously, later on, use a similar gag for one of her Sweetie Pie cartoons. She has four young brothers and sisters at home and eight young cousins living across the street from her home in La Crescenta, , Calif., and "just watching them and listening to them gives me many ideas," Nadine said. She sometimes gets ideas in the middle of the night and rodses i from half slumber or dozing to I reach frantically for a pencil to record the elusive thought j before it slips away, and fre- j quently friends are surprised to j see her rummaging for a pen-til pen-til and paper and start writing j feverishly in the midst of a sober, adult conversation. Although Sweetie Pie is only a little over a year old, Nadine already has a host of fans, including in-cluding youngsters, teen agers and adults, who write for her autograph, an original drawing of a cartoon that struck their fancy, or a special cartoon drawing for a promotion their community is sponsoring. At the Columbus (Ohio) Citizens ' Safety Exposition recently hun-j hun-j dreds o'f children had their pic-I pic-I tures taken with just their j heads showing above a huge ' Sweetie Pie body, as an Ohio State Fair safety feature. "I've taken a few art lessons since starting Sweetie Pie," the popular cartoonist said, 'and the scenery around Milford is I so grand I've about decided to ' get out my oils and try to cap-! cap-! ture some of it to take back to j California with me. Every-i Every-i where on the desert, and in the mountains and canyons, are beauty spots that offer in-rpiration in-rpiration for the artist. I'm more of a cartoonist, but I'm tempted to try to be an artist while I'm in Utah." Her 124-page book of cartoons, car-toons, published by Berkley Publishing Co. of New York, has been ordered for Milford distribution by LaMar Outzen of the Corner Drug. John W. Bloom, managing editor of the Columbus Ledger, writes that "Sweetie Pie is far and above any other small fry cartoon on the market.' Miss Seltzer will be visiting in Milford for two or three weeks, and has agreed to address ad-dress the next meeting of the Jaycess, |