Art: French Cartoonist in the U. S.

Oscar Fabrès has a Gallic wit, honed to an international cutting edge by cartooning in half the countries of the world. Last month short, balding Cartoonist Fabrès came to try his metal in the U. S. Last week his first impressions of life in Manhattan appeared in the New York World-Telegram. In his Adventures of Oscar, Oscar is himself, drawn much smaller than in his European comic strips. His explanation: "I am bewildered. I feel like a very little man in New York." In one strip (see cut) he is frisked in & out of his overcoat by a tall,...

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