This artist won the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial cartoon showing a house teetering from “world control” to “world destruction” on an atomic bomb. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this cartoonist best known for a series about Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, who creates absurdly complex analog machines to accomplish simple tasks.
ANSWER: Rube Goldberg [or Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg]
[10h] Goldberg won the Pulitzer while cartooning for this defunct newspaper. This printer of the “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” editorial never retracted six articles claiming that John Herschel had discovered bat-winged moonmen.
ANSWER: The Sun [accept The New York Sun] (The last clue refers to the Great Moon Hoax.)
[10m] Rube Goldberg also made several cartoon parody versions of these works for the company Pathé. The film Citizen Kane features a fictional one of these works that parodies a real-life one called The March of Time.
ANSWER: newsreels
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