At first, he'd write it and maybe rough it out, but pretty soon, I was doing the whole thing. Gus had a continuity on Monday through Saturday but the Sunday page was an entity unto itself, and he eased me into doing it.
I started off lettering and doing backgrounds, and in just a few months, I was drawing whole strips by myself, usually the Sunday page. So after I'd been at the News for a few years, I became Gus' assistant. He was an old United Features cartoonist and he left. Gus had a fellow working with him before me named Sam Hale. I was working for them while I was still in high school. Interviewed by Mark Evanier, Landau recalled, "I started working at the News in New York doing illustrations in '47. Edson also went to Pratt, so perhaps that was their connection. Landau's job at the Daily News led to work as an assistant to cartoonist Gus Edson on The Gumps. He completely captured the feeling of my character, and the film." The painting is by Daniel Boylan, and some of his other expressionistic paintings are seen around Malone's house.
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According to Landau, he did not paint the self-portrait he works on later in the film: "The paintings were created by an artist from Omaha-where the movie was shot. In Nik Fackler's Lovely, Still (2008), Robert Malone (Landau) is shown drawing early in the film. One of Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" research assistants was Milton Subotsky, later the producer of Tales from the Crypt and other horror-fantasy films. Rose, who was probably equally surprised, claimed, "It's one of those stinking, unbelievable coincidences." Sounds like Rose couldn't wait to fire the writer who had put him on the hot seat.
Some readers were surprised to find that a supposedly true incident described in one Rose column was identical to the plot of the 1936 Evelyn Waugh short story, "Bella Fleace Gave a Party". I did learn that Rose's column was ghostwritten by novelist Bernard Wolfe, later author of the acclaimed dystopian sf classic Limbo (1952). I failed to find his illustrations for Billy Rose's column, "Pitching Horseshoes". However, I don't recall ever seeing any of his artwork, so I went in search. It's well known that Martin Landau was a cartoonist in the late 1940s for the Daily News. He was studying art at Pratt Institute at the same time, but he left the Daily News in 1951 to begin as an actor.
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