I really liked this image and how super cartoony it is. This is my go to exercise for drawing large curves. I liked so much I combined the original image with some Will Eisner, and some Coop to make my logo.

Cole was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry’s Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1999.

Cole’s story “Murder, Morphine and Me”, which he illustrated and possibly wrote for publisher Magazine Village’s True Crime Comics No. 2 (May 1947), became a centerpiece of psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham’s crusade against violent comic books. Wertham, author of the influential study Seduction of the Innocent, cited a particular panel of the story’s dope-dealing narrator about to be stabbed in the eye with a hypodermic needle as an example of the “injury-to-the-eye” motif.

In 2003, writer-artist Art Spiegelman and artist Chip Kidd collaborated on a Cole biography, Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits, a portion of which had been published in The New Yorker magazine in 1999.