Set of four David Levine buttons. Copyright 1970 New York Review of Books.

In the late 1970s, I certainly put in my time imitating David Levine's caricature style best I could for the college newspaper. I often revisit his work through the several books I have in my collection.

The great American philosopher Jerry Lewis once said that the greatest gift one can give to any performer is a spotlight and a stage so here are a few links to sites that feature Levine's caricatures.
The New York Review of Books: David Levine Gallery: includes 2,500 illustrations dating as far back as 1963.

David Levine magazine covers

David Levine: Film Stars of the Silent and Early Talkies Era

Daily Beast: A Gallery, David Levine 1926-2009

Robert Newman Selects Some Favorite David Levine's

Guardian Cartoonist Steve Bell's Tribute: 'David Levine's caricatures were art'

New York Magazine: Peter Kaplan: Remembering David Levine: "Many will celebrate him, but I'd like to add this: As an editor who worked at a newspaper in the twilight age of the great print empires, nobody embodied the magic merger of ink and newsprint and its ability to state a human point of view-nobody could lift life from the page-as David Levine could."

But enough about me