Al Hirschfeld: 1903-2003. (In Memoriam).(Obituary)
American Theatre, April, 2003 by Feiffer, Jules
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Willard Mullin, the great sports cartoonist for the New York World Telegram, was once asked how he felt about all the other sports cartoonists who copied him. Mullin's response was: "They can copy me line for line but not thought for thought." It was even harder with Al Hirschfeld, because behind Al's line there was more than Al's thought; there was Al's soul.
And in his final years--the last 15 or so--that soul, like Picasso in his late drawings, was refined to pure essence.
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