He sailed November 12th on the Batavia, arriving in New York two weeks later. There had been a presidential election in his absence. General Grant had defeated Horace Greeley, a result, in some measure at least, attributed to the amusing and powerful pictures of the cartoonist, Thomas Nast. Mark Twain admired Greeley's talents, but he regarded him as poorly qualified for the nation's chief executive. He wrote:英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
I interrupted myself here, to drop a line to Shirley Brooks and suggest a cartoon for Punch. It was this. In one of the Academy salons (in the suite where these pictures are), a fine bust of Landseer stands on a pedestal in the centre of the room. I suggest that some of Landseer's best known animals be represented as having come down out of their frames in the moonlight and grouped themselves about the bust in mourning attitudes.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
I have received, at last, your present of the cartoon, from Dominichino, by Planchet. It is very finely done, it is pity that he did not take in all the figures of the original. I will hang it up, where it shall be your own again some time or other.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1751》
In this striking group the artist pictures for us the world-old story of conditions which meet the young lives of one generation, and are transmitted to the next. It is a picture that was true a thousand years ago; it is a picture that is faithful of conditions today. Perhaps its modern guise might be more aptly and perhaps no less strikingly shown, as it recently appeared in the form of a cartoon illustrating Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse:英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
'A triple-headed monster, sucking the blood of English novelists. One might design an allegorical cartoon for a comic literary paper. By-the-bye, why doesn't such a thing exist?--a weekly paper treating of things and people literary in a facetious spirit. It would be caviare to the general, but might be supported, I should think. The editor would probably be assassinated, though.'英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
While Claude was washing for dinner, Mahailey came to him with a page of newspaper cartoons, illustrating German brutality. To her they were all photographs,--she knew no other way of making a picture.英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
Oh, God, I wish I was a cartoon, so I could run right through this door, and leave behind a body-shaped hole.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I've tried everything to show you I'm not some cartoon rich guy, and you still think I'm a joke.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You know, before the Old West gunslingers were turned into dime store paperbacks and cartoons, the word "Outlaw" meant something.美剧 · 《Billions》
I used to love those cartoons where the coyote would get his fingers caught in the bomb right as he released it.美剧 · 《Billions》