A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from January 15, 2011
“Never eat anything bigger than your head”

Entry in progress—B.P.
   
Wikipedia: B. Kliban
Bernard “Hap” Kliban (January 1, 1935 – August 12, 1990) was an influential cartoonist born in New York.
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Legacy
According to Art Spiegelman, Kliban invented the form of cartoon, popularized by Gary Larson and others, of a single panel with a third-person caption describing the action.
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Never eat anything bigger than your head & other drawings
Author: B Kliban
Publisher: New York : Workman Pub. Co., ©1976.
Edition/Format:  Book : English

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