MINOR AT HEART
Photographer Gordon Parks and Harlem gang leader Leonard “Red” Jackson
In marking a forthcoming remake of Shaft, Maurice Berger at the New York Times reports that Gordon Parks hoped to "challenge how mainstream media portrayed African-Americans and crime.”
Vibrant as a rainbow
At The Los Angeles Times, Lyra Kilston wrote about midcentury Southern California designer Gere Kavanaugh.
Edits to a eulogy for editorial cartooning
Jack Shafer writes at Politico about our "entering the end times of the editorial cartoon." I’m not sure this is the whole story.
Among them too were women
Unlike their male contemporaries, the women of The New York School don't have anything even remotely resembling a starring role in helping define the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Saul Steinberg's horizontal line
At Apollo magazine, artist Martin Rowson writes about a newly published edition of 1960's The Labyrinth, from cartoonist Saul Steinberg.
A comic shaped by trauma
I’d read a longform magazine piece from cartoonist and writer Michael Kupperman about making All the Answers.
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Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Get in touch.