Corrections and Clarifications: An earlier version of this story had the wrong price for the Zac Posen gown. More than 80 years ago, Betty Boop sang that no one could take away her "boop-oop-a-doop." ...
Thirty-eight years ago, an ambitious young cartoonist named Frank Caruso turned up to the Manhattan offices of King Features for what was meant to be a single day’s freelance work. The company owned ...