Sublime

Brodovitch, the acclaimed art director for Harper’s Bazaar,

milieu du XIXe siècle.

This was the age of great magazine art directors—including Alexey Brodovitch, Alexander Liberman, Otto Storch, Cipe Pineles, and Alan Hurlburt—and

Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung,

“com-mix,” a combination of a conventional visual language (that is, the panel and balloon motif that dates back to the late nineteenth century) and scabrous story- and gag-lines heretofore banned from mainstream comic books.

The Composing Room of New York

End Bad Breath by Seymour Chwast,