Most famous for his comic strip art, which has been popular since the Eisenhower/beatnik years. His cartoons in "The New Yorker", "Playboy" and "The Village Voice", among others, have inspired cartoonists from Garry Trudeau to Berkeley Breathed, and his first strip, "Sick, Sick, Sick", gave a name to the "sick" comedy of such 1950s icons as Mike Nichols and Elaine May, the Second City troupe and Lenny Bruce.
During the middle 60s, when I wrote 'Little Murders' I was in a mood of black despair about the country and where we were going. I thought the Vietnam War was going to go on for the rest of my life and my daughter's. The left was crumbling and what part of it wasn't was a pain in the rear. I felt terribly old and very bitter about the future of this country and my future in it.
