Kliban: Goodbye To Our Dear Friend Hap...
January, 1991
Hap Kliban, who died this past summer, was known to most people as the cartoonist who became a one-man industry by drawing striped cats. Naturally, most people thought he loved cats, and he did love his own cat, Cow. What he hated were letters from cat lovers telling him "something really funny" that their cat had done. He hated cute cat letters and he hated lawyers. Way more than car mechanics, agents, art schools, the East Coast, snow, bamboo musical instruments, ancient ruins and an...
