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Marvin Couch, of the Bronx, writes: Last weekend, I gave a 30x20-inch print of your Lenin and McCarthy to my Beatles-crazy friend, Pete, for his 50th birthday. He always wants Beatles stuff and it's hard to find things he doesn't already have, but I doubted he'd have one of these and I was right. And I could tell, the instant he tore off the paper, he didn't want this one, either. He pretended he did, but he's a lousy pretender. And it wasn't necessary. I'd have been fine with his coming right out and telling me he didn't like it. But that's not Pete's way. He took my arm and walked me through the entire house pretending to look for the perfect spot to hang the unwanted print, had me hold it up a half-dozen different places in every room to see how it looked. Some rooms we revisited a second and third time. On our second pass through the kitchen, I saw an out. I suggested he might prefer your Lenin & McCarthy as a fridge magnet. Boy, was he relieved! He thought that would be perfect! S...

I was a creative kid but didn’t think to pursue it and, upon graduating from high school, followed the path of least resistance from mail clerking at an ad agency to managing the HR Department of a mid-sized investment dealer, where, after eight years, I decided to take a run at doing as I pleased. Early on, this was writing, later, illustrating. I still do both, though am acknowledged most for my illustrations, reproductions of which have appeared in Canadian and U.S. publications, been chosen for Apple iCards, and are hung for fun on walls around the world. Two have been featured on Fine Art America's home page—'little black dress' and, more recently, 'painter'. Visit my website, dkzn/dickson, at dkzn.net