Contributor David from Manhattan writes:
Ed Koren's death has hit me hard. I've been unearthing a handful of things I haven't shared on Attempted Bloggery. One in particular is an anthology, Man Bites Man: Two Decades of Satiric Art (A & W Publishers, 226 pages) compiled with loving care by Steven Heller in 1981 when he was only 30. With twenty-two different artists, an introduction by Tom Wolfe, generously illustrated in b&w and color, with work selected by the artists themselves, and in the case of Koren, imaginatively chosen.
No New Yorker cartoons or covers, familiar or not, but here's a two-page spread from Esquire, Leisure Hours on the Pike . . .
. . . and Ranking Members from The People, Maybe by Karl A. Lamb . . .
. . . and Our Vital Literary Life which began life as a 1977 invitation to a Gotham Book Mart exhibition . . .
. . . and simply asks, Is It Funny? (1978). Ten pages in all, with an informed introduction and a great front cover (in case the title of the collection needs further explanation).
My copy, from a Colorado bookstore a few years back, includes a Koren drawing on the front free endpaper. Despite all that white space made available, Koren may have had other things on his mind at that moment.
Still, any collection "dedicated to three giants of the comic arts: Art Young, Gluyas Williams and Otto Soglow" should be carefully examined.
Note: Thanks to David from Manhattan for going into his library and putting this whole post together about the great Edward Koren. The images are all his. This is David's fifty-fifth contribution to Attempted Bloggery.
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