Among the small assortment of drawings of Schirm I posted earlier is one called The Artist. It seems to have struck a chord, no musical puns intended. I found this piece interesting in as much as it shows Schirm returning to the same subject, but with a totally different treatment.

He sure as hell likes quoting from Clarence Day, doesn't he? I looked him up. Day appears to be a once popular but now forgotten American author from the 20's and 30's. Rather more interesting than the writer himself is his father, Benjamin Day, who invented the Benday process that put all those little dots in half-toned pictures in the newspapers.