More than 20,000 plans were purchased before Barber's company stopped producing them. Dozens of the houses are part of historic districts and more than four dozen, including the Lindsay-Lake House, are on the National Register of Historic Places. He published his house plans in catalogs and sold them across the nation and world, including in Japan and the Philippines. Barber began designing houses in his hometown of DeKalb, Ill., before moving to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1888. It was built in 1893 from a $5 mail-order design by architect George Franklin Barber. The College Street house, known as the Lindsay-Lake House, was classified as 'neo-Jacobean” because of its projecting wings and bays, irregular roof lines with dormers, gables and chimneys, porches with balustrades, and conical towers. When he won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists angrily protested the Pulitzer committee's decision. The comic included the comment, 'Its taste blends perfectly with the sense of accomplishment I feel after getting five accused nun-beaters sprung on a technicality.”Įven though the Washington Post syndicate deemed it an acceptable parody, it drew a lot of heat.īreathed simply stated that tastelessness was in the eye of the beholder and responded, 'As Steve Martin said, comedy isn't always pretty.” In 1985, he drew a parody of a Dewar's Scotch ad that showed a drunken Dallas leaning over a bottle of Dewar's. The syndicate thought that was too controversial and omitted the words 'birth control” from the strip. In an early strip, a mother discovers Flintstone vitamins in her daughter's bathroom and mistakes them for birth control pills. The strip often drew criticism from editors. I do political satire, but it's through euphemism and metaphor,” he said. For instance, Iowa City's water became infamous when he compared it with all-purpose household cleaner Spic and Span in a 'Bloom County” strip.īreathed said he didn't do 'blatant” satire in the strip 'because that's done so much.
It was 10-year-old 'Bloom County” newspaper reporter Milo Bloom's family's boardinghouse, where Steve Dallas, a shady lawyer Opus, a tie-wearing penguin Bill the Cat and many other characters lived at various times.īreathed wasn't above stirring up controversy in his adopted town. The home became a model for the boardinghouse in 'Bloom County” and was featured in his book 'Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things.” 'Six different architectural styles in one house is a milestone at least and at most a landmark to bad taste,” he said.
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