[Beyond The Beach]

August, 2007

Dispatches from playboy's most beloved cartoonistDespite his initial suc­cess in Chicago as a cartoonist for a fledg­ling magazine called playboy, Shel Silver-stein decided in 1957 to go back to Japan, where he had enjoyed acclaim as a cartoon-ist for Stars and Stripes. It was Hugh Hefner's idea for Sil-verstein to submit accounts of his trav­els for publication in playboy. "The notion was that Shel would be our traveling rep­resentative, sending back recollections in the form of cartoons,&...