Jonathan Taylor writes:

The Times's Edward Rothstein had a nice review of the Morgan Library exhibit of New Yorker cartoons about money that Martin wrote about recently. For those who can't go to it, the many word-pictures and punch lines cited by Rothstein are entertaining enough, because, as he writes,

Their characters are types; their relationships archetypes. It is by eliminating reality's detail—information about particular individuals, their histories and their desires, information that might stir sympathy or resentment—that the show's images focus complete attention on how powerful and how precarious a thing money is.

Among the funny ones:

One of the exhibition's final cartoons shows greedily gloating tycoons celebrating their apparent mastery.

"Well, we've licked taxes," one thunders. "That just leaves death" (Lee Lorenz, 2002).