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Fidel Castro and Russian Prime Minister Nikita Kruschev are caricatured by Roy Hearn October 6, 1960, to accompany an article about pets in the White House over the years.
In the Famous Artists School cartoon correspondence course of the 1960's, students were told never show two people who are talking to stiffly stand and face each other. That would be too boring a drawing. Roy Hearn probably never took the course, but he knew instinctively how to arrange a conversation. The woman bounces with hiccups and the debonair Frenchman leans forward while keeping himself from going too far by holding his cummerbund. Just why he signed the cartoon upside down isn't known; perhaps he drew this with hiccups too.
A Roy Hearn cartoon for an article about a woman in Paris who opened up an American-style beauty salon, which proved to be quite popular. Note how Hearn signed his name. The cartoon and article were printed in the Plain Dealer Wednesday, November 7, 1962.
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Roy Hearn could also do drawings in a more illustrative style when called upon. This cartoon of Nate Adams, a Cleveland track star, appeared in the Plain Dealer on May 22, 1963.
A full-page local feature printed in the Plain Dealer July 6, 1963, showed just how valuable staff cartoonists were regarded by newspaper editors then. The article was about elephant jokes. The text was in the center of the page; above that was a photo of a real elephant and along the right and left columns and at the bottom of the page were five Hearn cartoons.
French president Charles DeGaulle was a more realistic portrait done by Roy Hearne for Sunday, February 16, 1964 in the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Op-Ed page.
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