OLD FARTS

 

Old Farts Are Forever (128 6x6-inch pages, b/w; Andrews McMeel paperback, $9.99) by Lee Lorenz presents the New Yorker cartoonist’s view of aging, gracefully or not. Lorenz introduces this collection with this: “Just as people begin to look like their dogs, cartoonists begin to look like their people. This notion hit me one day when I looked in the mirror and discovered that, after so many years of drawing old farts, I had become one.”

I like Lorenz’s style as much as Sidney Harris’, and in the selection arrayed hereabouts, we can watch as he administers his energetic brush in an increasingly slapdash manner as time weaves its way. But vintage or recent, the pictures are a delight to behold.