George Herriman’s drawings are masterpieces of dramatic economy, achieving miracles of individuation and expression through body language and suggestive absences.
In this remembrance of Jules Feiffer we reprint a 2018 interview with the Voice legend, who talked about the panoply of his characters that live on in film, on the stage, and in print and pixels.
For Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal piece of gonzo revelation, ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ the illustrator’s byline read, “Sketched with eyebrow pencil and lipstick by Ralph Steadman.”
Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such diverse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer
