{"id":36741,"date":"2021-05-21T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=36741"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:22:56","slug":"humor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=36741","title":{"rendered":"A retrospective look at a sophisticated cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cartoonist<\/strong> William Hamilton, 76, (above<\/em>) died five years ago last month in Lexington, Kentucky, when he ran a stop sign near his home and his car was hit by a pickup truck. “I don’t know whether he had a malaise or was distracted,” his widow Lucy said at the time.<\/p>\n

This being near the fifth anniversary of his death, it seems an appropriate time for a retrospective look at several of his cartoons, most of which were first published in The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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One of his more popular books<\/strong>, Money Should Be Fun <\/em>(Houghton Mifflin Co., 1980) “lovingly satirized high society,” The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> commented at the time of Hamilton’s death.<\/p>\n

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The expressions on the two faces say almost as much as the caption.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The themes of alcohol and adultery run through many of Hamilton’s <\/em>cartoons, not altogether surprising in parodies of the wealthy<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Here the eaves-droppers’ expressions tell much of the story.<\/em><\/p>\n

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William Hamilton started drawing<\/strong> for The New Yorker<\/em> in 1965. His drawings also appeared in Newsweek<\/em>, The New York Observer<\/em>, Town and Country,<\/em> and other publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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