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DMA#55: Paid to be in trouble with Avi Steinberg
About twelve years ago, a teacher hired me to draw a caricature of her colleague as a gift. The colleague, she mentioned, was a New Yorker cartoonist. I said yes immediately, then realised I had no idea what the man looked like.
That’s the whole profession, basically. You know the work, you know the signature, you’ve never seen the face. “It’s the perfect crime,” Avi Steinberg said this week, a decade after drawing him without his knowledge. “You can be famous on paper and still walk around without anyone bothering you.”
Avi kept the caricature. I look at it and see only the mistakes, but he…
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