Teen-agers live in a world of their own [. . .] (Lou Myers)

There are many reasons it’s great to get things from Steven Heller. The top reason is that he has great things. The second-top reason is that when we’re lucky, he’s written about an item, and it saves us a lot of work. He’s written about this particular item in Print. Here’s what he had to say:

Lou Myers was a hilarious cartoonist with an expressively lunatic line. He was a master, sadly forgotten. This was a fold-out ad done for WQXR Radio when Louis Silverstein was promotion art director at The New York Times. It speaks volumes about radio and promotion in the 1950s when art sold the soft-sell.

We’re even luckier when he writes the obituary for the designer—or, in this case the cartoonist. Learn more about Lou here.