MINOR AT HEART
Work, a source of vitality and well-being
For Push Pin Studios co-founder and New York City graphic design legend Milton Glaser, the idea of retirement is repulsive.
The end of Mad magazine, once a boon in comics' end-times
At The Nation, Jeet Heer writes about the impact of MAD magazine and references its origins, which came at a tumultuous time for the comic book industry and for EC Comics publisher William Gaines.
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.
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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.