Manuscripts

Conrad, Paul

Description: 1 item: 60-pp. transcript of interview with Paul Conrad, 10/11/1979. Subjects include: ideas, and how he gets them ; work habits ; showing "roughs" to Tony Day ; majoring in Art at University of Iowa ; creative method of completing his college course requirements ; his work at Denver Post (1950 - 1963) ; a jump back to earlier, colorful U.S. Army experiences on Okinawa and elsewhere ; memories of his youth including his father's apparently anti-Semitic and reactionary political and social views ; early impressions of Los Angeles Times ; Tom Johnson's support of Conrad in the face of violent criticisms ; branching out from cartoonist to sculptor ; more.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1979
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Conrad, Paul

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Approx. 15 items - letters and article copies related to complaints about Conrad cartoons. The material included here mostly deals with Israel and Jews being unhappy with Conrad's work. Notable names: Paul Conrad ; Rabbi Harvey J. Fields (Wilshire Boulevard Temple) ; Walter A. Annenberg.

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Approx. 75 items: a large selection of outraged letters spawned by Conrad cartoons over almost 25 years. Those outraged included a group of Hollywood High School students (who urged Conrad's firing), LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, and more. Memos and notes in-house on controversies swirling around Conrad. Also in the folder:a letter from the Society of Professional Journalists notifying Conrad that he had won the Sigma Delta Chi award for 1981 ; specimens of the form letter about freedom to express opinions, etc, more personalized responses to some letters ; one original copy of Iowa Alumni Review, 12/1963, with article written by Conrad - "The Ticklish Art," pp. 5-6, two of Conrad's "Favorite Cartoons," pp. 12 and a brief profile (with photo of Conrad) pp. 14-15 ; article copied from University (mag.) Fall 1983, "If it stinks, stir it," (an interview with Conrad).

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Approx. 25 items - letters, article copies, tear sheets and other material related to controversial Conrad cartoons on Israel and Middle East turmoil. One letter, 12/12/1988, to The Spotlight, in Washington DC, warned that publication to "cease distribution of...any Times' copyrighted materials..." - they had run a Conrad cartoon four days before without permission.

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4 items. Includes communiques between Marketing Research and Carolyn Miller of Arcadia (she had strong anti-Conrad sentiments to express), then between Williams and Miller. Also a copy of a letter from Williams to Mrs. B.J. Carroll of Newport Beach. Carroll had also obviously taken strong exception to one or more Conrad cartoons, and Williams was defending him as "a social critic."

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Approx. 35 items: correspondence complaining about Conrad cartoons, and related material reflecting depth of feeling all the way from cancelled subscriptions to legal action.

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Conrad, Paul

Manuscripts

Files on Paul Conrad (1924-2010), Pulitzer Prize-winning artist best known for his editorial cartoonist for the Times from 1964-1993. Date range is 1964-1994.

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