I want to point out that had my father decided to stay with the Philadelphia Inquirer, with Knight Ridder, he'd probably have a wall full of Pulitzers at this point. “He had to make a decision to go for one or the other. “The paper soon got sold from Annenberg to Knight Ridder,” Remi Bellocq said. But he sold the Inquirer and the new owners told Peb he had to make a choice, racing cartoons or political cartoons. Walter Annenberg owned both the Inquirer and the Form. And as you know, I ended up here for good.”Īt one point in his career, Peb was also doing political cartoons for the Philadelphia Inquirer. I was sitting on the hay in cargo with the horses. So, they said, if you want, you can take advantage of that. “I found that a friend of mine was putting together a plane in Chicago with four horses that were coming for the Washington, DC International. “They invited me to come to America, but they were wondering how they could bring me here,” he said. His accommodations on that first trip over weren't necessarily first class. International, which would lead to a job with the Morning Telegraph. Schapiro became aware of Peb's work and brought him in from France to do the art work for the inaugural running of the Washington D.C. I had a great passion for that.”īecause his father was a head lad for a French stable, Bellocq was also interested in racing and capturing the sport through his cartoons. I made albums of a caricature of politicians. “When I was a kid I was copying cartoons and it was my ambition to draw. “I always tried to copy from the newspapers,” he said. Peb explained how it all began for him, back when he was a young boy in France. They were this week's Green Group Guests of the Week. We brought in Peb and his son, Remi, who does a weekly cartoon for the TDN to join us this week on the TDN Writers' Room podcast presented by Keeneland. Now 96, Peb lives in Princeton, New Jersey and, if you ask him to do so, he'll crank out a cartoon that is every bit as good as anything he's ever done. His cartoons were always creative, witty, thought-provoking and, most importantly, fun. from his native France in the mid-fifties he spent the next 50-plus years making readers of the old Morning Telegraph and the Daily Racing Form laugh. He made notable appearances in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Murder, She Wrote," - as three different characters, in fact - and "Modern Family." He also showed up on the big screen in the likes of "Dead Poets Society," "Trainwreck," and "The Age of Innocence." In May of 2021, he died at 106 years old.It's not hyperbole to call cartoonist Pierre Bellocq a legend. Lloyd, however, survived many years more. Introduced as suffering from cancer in the first season, Auschlander always seemed well aware of his mortality, even after remission. Elsewhere," Lloyd played the chief of services and, essentially, the hospital's institutional memory. From that point forward, Lloyd worked as either an actor, producer, or director until 2017.Īs Dr. Then, after a brief hiatus thanks to the Hollywood blacklist, Lloyd found his way back to show business thanks to Alfred Hitchcock hiring him to produce and direct "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in the late '50s. Throughout the 1930s, Lloyd repeatedly was a part of some of the era's most significant events, including the social theater scene and becoming a charter player in Orson Welles' independent repertory group The Mercury Theatre.
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