The Nerve Of Erv!
August, 2000
How can cartoon calligraphies be so obviously sexual, yet so exuberantly soap-behind-the-ears clean? How can mankind, meaning mostly men, be exhibited in a pen-and-ink Kinkajoy Museum with his outdoor plumbing sparsely or fully rampant yet cause no censor's outcry nor feminist's slur?In other words, how in blazes does Erv Kaplan get away with it? The answer, of course, is that he's just turned 12, is on the verge, and doesn't realize that what he's doing is a mental striptease--not on rest room...
