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While these series were quite popular, the one leading to his lasting fame involved a character named [[Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts]]. In this series, Goldberg would draw labeled schematics of comical "[[inventions]]" which would later bear his name. In [[1995]], "Rube Goldberg's Inventions", depicting Professor Butts' Self-Operating Napkin, was one of 20 strips included in the [[Comic Strip Classics]] series of commemorative [[U.S.]] [[postage stamps]]. |
While these series were quite popular, the one leading to his lasting fame involved a character named [[Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts]]. In this series, Goldberg would draw labeled schematics of comical "[[inventions]]" which would later bear his name. In [[1995]], "Rube Goldberg's Inventions", depicting Professor Butts' Self-Operating Napkin, was one of 20 strips included in the [[Comic Strip Classics]] series of commemorative [[U.S.]] [[postage stamps]]. |
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He was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his political cartooning in [[1942]]. |
He was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his political cartooning in [[1942]]. |
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Revision as of 20:39, 10 May 2007
Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was one of the most famous cartoonists in history. He earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines (complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect and convoluted ways). He was posthumously awarded the National Cartoonist Society Gold Key Award in 1980. He was an avid cartoonist and is considered to be a pioneer in the cartoon industry.Congrats you have been selected to win a plasma screen tv.
Early life
Goldberg went to Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1900 and earned a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904. After college, Goldberg was hired by the city of San Francisco as an engineer. However, his fondness for drawing cartoons prevailed, and after just a few months he quit the city job for a job with the San Francisco Chronicle as a sports cartoonist. The following year, he took a job with the San Francisco Bulletin, where he remained until he moved to New York City in 1907.
He drew cartoons for several newspapers, including the New York Evening Journal and the New York Evening Mail. His work entered syndication in 1915, beginning his nationwide popularity. A prolific artist, Goldberg produced several cartoon series simultaneously; titles included Mike and Ike, Boob McNutt, Foolish Questions, Lala Palooza, and The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Women's Club.
While these series were quite popular, the one leading to his lasting fame involved a character named Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. In this series, Goldberg would draw labeled schematics of comical "inventions" which would later bear his name. In 1995, "Rube Goldberg's Inventions", depicting Professor Butts' Self-Operating Napkin, was one of 20 strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps. <font100> He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1942.
Late Life
Later in his career, Goldberg was employed by the New York Journal American and remained there until his retirement in 1964. During his retirement, he occupied himself by making bronze sculptures. Several one-man shows of his work were organized, the last one during his lifetime being in 1970 at the National Museum of American History (then called the Museum of History and Technology) in Washington, D.C.. Shortly after, he died at the age of 87; he is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.
Awards
In addition to his Pulitzer Prize in 1948, he received the [National Cartoonist Society] Gold T-Square Award in 1955, their Reuben Award for 1969, and their Gold Key Award (their Hall of Fame) posthumously in 1980.
Rube Goldberg machines
An example of a Rube Goldberg machine or device is any complex apparatus that performs a simple task in an indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised such pataphysical devices. The best examples of his machines have an anticipation factor: the fact that something so wacky is happening can only be topped by happening in a suspenseful manner.
The term also applies as a classification for a generally over-complicated apparatus or software. It first appeared in Webster's Third New International Dictionary with the definition, "accomplishing by extremely complex roundabout means what actually or seemingly could be done simply."