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Reaching for Social Heights:
Foreign dignitaries in uniform or exotic dress converse and mingle with gowned beauties in glittering company moving to the right. Mr. Tagg leads the way with his reddened nose in the air. With eyes closed, he savors a fantasy disclosed in a tiny thought balloon in the upper right -- being presented at court in England. Gibson, who was known to dislike social snobbery, mocks his character's pretensions by portraying him as faintly ridiculous with self-importance. Gibson esteemed the work of great cartoonists and some admirers of his work argue that he proudly regarded himself as one of them. |