But you have your own individuality, dear; and a very
strong one it is. And I don't want you to change."
At the time he was deep in his plans for illustrating the
_News-Record_. Early in that fall's campaign they had secured the best
cartoonist in America. Cartoons are rarely the work of one man but are got
up by consultations. Howard spent never less than an hour each day with the
cartoonist, Wickham, wrestling with the problem of the next day's picture.
For he insisted upon having a striking cartoon each day, and gave it the
most conspicuous place in the paper--the top-centre of the first page.
"If a cartoon is worth printing at all," he said, "it is worth printing
large and conspicuous. And to be worth printing it must be like an ideal
editorial--one point sharply and swiftly made and so clear that the most
careless glance-of-the-eye is enough."
Wickham had made a series of cartoons on the campaign, humorous and
satirical, which had the distinction of being reproduced on lantern slides
for use in all parts of the town. It was an admirable beginning of the new
policy of illustration. Howard had been making a careful study of all the
illustrators in the country, not overlooking those toiling in obscurity on
the big western dailies.
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