Book 660: The Most of John Held, Jr

The Most of John Held, Jr, The Stephen Greene Press, 1972.

I have loved John Held, Jr's work since I first encountered it in my late teens.  I loved his clean, spare lines and the overt humor in his drawings.  I knew who he was; I knew his work; but I didn't know there was a book about him and his work.

Now I have an almost-ten-year-old son who loves to draw comic maps in a style not dissimilar to Held's. When I was researching Held's maps to show my son, I discovered this book.  Of course I bought it, although I don't know if it for me or for my son.