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The expression on the father's face is priceless in this Roy Hearn cartoon of Sunday, February 29, 1976. It was for a New York Times Service article on co-educational home economics classes in a school in New Milford, Connecticut. Some parents became irate because they felt such classes would result in "effeminate tendencies" in boys. The classes proved to be successful and they were continued.
The late singer Johnny Cash as depicted by Roy Hearn in 1976.
Entertainer, songwriter and author Steve Allen got the Roy Hearn treatment, also in 1976.
Comedian Don Rickles as caricatured by Roy Hearn for a Plain Dealer article about Rickles coming to Cleveland for a performance. This was published on June 3, 1976.
Roy Hearn wasn't very interested in sports, but he was assigned to draw sports cartoons from time to time, such as this one which was printed in the Plain Dealer Friday, June 11, 1976. In 1948, the late Bill Veeck owned the Cleveland Indians baseball team when it won the World Series. By 1976, he owned the Chicago White Sox, hence this cartoon.
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Yes, they had bottled water even in 1976! This Roy Hearn cartoon for Sunday, July 18, 1976, accompanied an article about a product bottled in Maine called Poland Spring Water which was consumed by such personages as Howard Hughes, film star Kay Francis and opera singer Ezio Pinza. It was said that movie star Merle Oberon used it for bathing. That long-haired character in the cartoon is Hughes at a time when he lived as a recluse in a Las Vegas hotel and seldom shaved or got a haircut. Note the expression on the other character's face. Hughes was one of those people to whom cleanliness was an obsession. A fly in his water would have been an anathema.
This cartoon by Roy Hearn for Monday, July 26, 1976, was for an article that told of a California bachelor who developed a correspondence course costing $275 on how to attract women. It had to do with dress, honesty, sincerity and eye contact.
This cartoon of Sunday, July 25, 1976, illustrated an article about Russian authors and playwrights jumping on the spy bandwagon. The article points out that Russian spy enemies were seldom Americans; they were Fascists and Nazis. This Roy Hearn drawing depicts a Soviet opera about a real Soviet spy working in Japan when World War II began. The Russians never referred to these clandestine operatives as spies; they were called "secret servicemen."
This cartoon drew attention to an article on how difficult it had become to open medicine bottles and other products. Note Roy's bold, definite brush strokes and the use of patterned overlay in the shirt and dress. This ran in the Plain Dealer July 18, 1976. One month later to the day an article would run announcing Roy Hearn had died of cancer at age 48.
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