David Levine, RIP.

David Levine, the artist whose cartoons became an anti-Vietnam war feature of the New York Review of Books, died Tuesday. He was 83.

His drawings were so effective and cutting in their depiction of the war leaders like LBJ and Henry Kissinger that the drawing of Kissinger above, which was commissioned for the op-ed page of the New York Times, was killed. The Times paid a million dollar “kill fee” for it not to be published.

Interestingly, the NYT does not mention this in their obit.

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