Arts
fromwww.npr.org
1 week agoRemembering the actors, musicians, writers and artists we lost in 2025
David Lynch, Jules Feiffer and Roberta Flack were influential creatives whose distinctive works shaped film, cartoons, and music across decades.
In the aughts, after growing disenchanted with his dream of becoming a Disney animator, he decided cartooning would be his lot in life. When he learned, in the wake of the Great Recession, that The New Yorker was the primary outlet still publishing cartoons, cracking the code of America's idiosyncratic intellectual stand-by became his mission. Until that point, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Ren & Stimpy, and South Park had been his guiding lights ("all those '90s dudes").