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Foster, now 32, describes himself as a "writer, painter, poet, printmaker, joker, killer, lover, gambler, mean and sweet, dreamer and doer, and charged with a madman's drive." As for his cartoons, they are rather crudely drawn and most aren't very funny (maybe you had to be there; I wasn't). But if he hasn't necessarily advanced the cause of art or humor, he has still done us a service in the humanitarian realm. As an example, consider his parting shot (so to speak), a cartoon labeled "The Textbook Warrior and the A grunt, whistling coolly, is pictured dropping a grenade at the feet of his unaware whose eyes are dutifully glued to a pair of binoculars trained on some faraway horizon. In the blackest, bleakest sense, that was Vietnam. We need to remember it, and Foster's crude but heart-felt cartoons are potent souvenirs.

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