Martin Garbus

September, 1969

Though his black-humor cartoons have appeared weekly for the past five years in the underground Los Angeles Free Press, Ron Cobb has transcended its subterranean confines: His work is now carried in over 60 college newspapers and a number of establishment dailies as well. Divorcing himself from specific political personalities and issues, Cobb creates apocalyptic pictorial parables—timeless commentaries on our most pressing contemporary crises. He sketches a hirsute Samson, chained to the temple...