Thanks to my good friend Simon Monroe, the elusive, enigmatic illustrator who did the caricature of me that will henceforth make its home on this site’s blog page. My friend Ken Smith, a man who knows from illustrators, complimented the drawing by saying that it was “Sort of Mencken in spirit, and it sets off the page in a literary New York Review of Books kind of way.” Simon, a worshipful student of David Levine, was very flattered by this reaction. Personally, I’m just fascinated by the amount of croshatching on my nose. Ken, of course, in addition to designing my website, did the water color of me that tops the News page here, working from a photo he took of me when we worked together at Time in 1998. The drawing on the Media page is by Barry Blitt, who did it for a contributors page in an issue of Spy circa 1990. I don’t know who did the caricature on the Contact page–I’m hoping to find out–but it is part of a set of editors of Spy that was done for a custom-made Chutes & Ladders game that was given to Susan Morrison when she left Spy around 1991 to edit The New York Observer. To see the entire set, you’d have to make friends with Susan. Or break into her apartment