Update: American Heritage And Its On-Line Failings
The Article which I spent two afternoons (including today) clawing through old hard-copies to find. (Scroll down to the bottom!) Alas, the illustrations (the WHOLE POINT of the article!) have not been digitally reproduced.
The practical upshot: a century and a half ago, the mass media trend was illustrated newspapers, the more elaborate the graphics the better. On the West Coast of America, a start-up paper couldn't afford to hire a professional artist, so instead of emulating the trend, they lampooned it by using stock woodcuts (their generation's CLIP ART!) with off-the-wall captions. I wanted to know if there was a terminology for this method, but there wasn't one mentioned in the article. I guess I'll settle for John Phoenixism or Phoenix's Pictorialization.
Meanwhile:
* Happy Birthday nick_101! I hear the traditional Ninja custom for celebrating another year older is to apply a few katana whacks to a nice plump watermelon. Take no produce alive, buddy!
FP
PS: The 1st PhoePix!
The practical upshot: a century and a half ago, the mass media trend was illustrated newspapers, the more elaborate the graphics the better. On the West Coast of America, a start-up paper couldn't afford to hire a professional artist, so instead of emulating the trend, they lampooned it by using stock woodcuts (their generation's CLIP ART!) with off-the-wall captions. I wanted to know if there was a terminology for this method, but there wasn't one mentioned in the article. I guess I'll settle for John Phoenixism or Phoenix's Pictorialization.
Meanwhile:
* Happy Birthday nick_101! I hear the traditional Ninja custom for celebrating another year older is to apply a few katana whacks to a nice plump watermelon. Take no produce alive, buddy!
FP
PS: The 1st PhoePix!