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Show appear in this paper and you will have no difficulty in understanding why they have such a universal appeal. ap-peal. n Kittner is Cartoonist Cartoon-ist who has Something Some-thing more than , Artistic Ability A great cartoonist must be a good artist but a good artist may be a flat failure as a cartoonist, for there are other things more important than ability as an artist that enter j into the making of a good cartoon- ist. The really great cartoonist must be a close student of history and of current events, and he must have something under his hat that will enable him to judge men and events correctly. He must have a keen if ( " X - - 4 ! ica MAGNUS G. "ETTNER One of the Country's Most Popular Cartoonists. sense of humor and he must have a heart in his body as well as an active brain in his head. There are comparatively few cartoonists car-toonists who measure up to this standard and one of them is Magnus Mag-nus G. Kettner, whose cirtoons appear ap-pear regularly in this paper. There are some cartoonists who are recognized as masters of satire or of caricature and in whose work there is usually a sting for some person or some cause. Kettner's cartoons are of an entirely different character. They reflect a keen insight in-sight into human frailties. The actual drawing of a cartoon is the least of his worries, Kettner concedes. The brain-cogs must be started working long before the first strokes are made on paper. The night is the best time to think, the day the bst to draw, Kettner has found. "Early in the evening, when the body is tired," he says, "the muscles become willing to relax, having lost the nervous energy of the morning, when all thoughts like to be accompanied by action. This militates against creative crea-tive thinking during the early hours of the day, but affords ideal conditions for crystallizing thoughts are ideas which already have been evolved. If I want to get the most work done in the daytime, I've got to figure out a great deal of it beforehand be-forehand on my way home, or at dinner, or at some time before I arrive back at the workshop. Then the rest Is easy." Follow Kettner's cartoons as they |