Thursday, September 24, 2020

Warren Miller: Not So Far-Out Any More

A 1975 New Yorker cartoon by Warren Miller reflects an era when once-radical ideas eventually had come to seem mainstream. In other words, that time was not entirely unlike our own day.

Then as now, it has never been typical for a cartoonist to place major characters at the far right and left edges of a scene, but Miller certainly knows the way to do it, both compositionally and politically. (Understand, however, that if one wishes to have the "engaging conversationalist" on the left, that can only work if one is seated on the patron's side of the bar.)
"Poor fellow—he used to be an engaging conversationalist, but all the wild, far-out
things he used to talk about are painfully obvious to everybody nowadays."
Warren Miller
Original art
The New Yorker, February 17, 1975, page 37

"Poor fellow—he used to be an engaging conversationalist, but all the wild, far-out
things he used to talk about are painfully obvious to everybody nowadays."

Warren Miller
Original art
The New Yorker, February 17, 1975, page 37

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"Poor fellow—he used to be an engaging conversationalist, but all the wild, far-out
things he used to talk about are painfully obvious to everybody nowadays."

Warren Miller
Original art
The New Yorker, February 17, 1975, page 37


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