#cartooning

#cartooning

Counterculture auteur David Lynch He directed off-kilter cinematic classics in the 1980s and 1990s, including Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and he co-created the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks. David Lynch's surreal, sinister vision, he said, came from a happy 1950s childhood in Boise, Idaho, that was punctuated by startling glimpses of violence. An eye-catching figure known for his messy pompadour, Lynch was also a longtime devotee of transcendental meditation. Read Kyle Norris' remembrance.

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").