Eyeballs Into Dollars
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
Above: a sketch I drew of a guy at his table at the Small Press Expo. I was reading a collection of columns by H. Allen Smith and this little story popped out: "The only Broadway personality I knew before I got to Broadway was a singer named Gene Austin, an amiable, robust, hard-drinking balladier from Louisiana. In the 1920s, when phonograph records were sold at seventy-five-cents apiece, he...


