David Levine

April, 1969

pen-ultimateHis Drawings are unmerciful: L.B.J. exhibiting his abdominal scar, which is shaped like Vietnam; a bare-bottomed Harold Macmillan springboarding off De Gaulle's proboscis; then-Vice-President Ky at his desk under a huge portrait of a Hitler that subtly resembles Ky. About 20 of them a month appear in The New York Review of Books, Esquire, The Washington Post, Look and, it sometimes seems, everywhere--as in the first week of 1968, when they enlivened the covers of both Newsweek and Ti...