![]() There was a wild, improvisational streak in Crawford’s work. He was his own one-man cartoon-caption contest in that way. Lots of drawings sat around for years without any caption. ![]() “And when it came to cartoons he just started drawing, without any idea where things might go. ![]() For at least an hour every morning, “Michael was mining his dreams,” his wife, Carolita Johnson, also a cartoonist for this magazine, said. Straight from bed he reached for his pencils and pad, the better to get those images and word clusters down on paper. Michael Crawford was a cartoonist and a painter, a wry and sensitive artist who woke each day with his head full of dreams. In the July 25th New Yorker, an affectionate brief memorial (by David Remnick, the magazine’s editor) for cartoonist Michael Crawford, “Remembering an adored cartoonist: Michael Crawford was a wry and sensitive artist whose sweet, jazzy personality converged with his work”, beginning:
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