The Living Room Bijou: Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up”

During the late 1970s, I was living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I formed a pleasurable, fruitful association with left-wing satirist and editorial cartoonist Pete Wagner, working with him on a few of his publications and projects.
I knew Pete as a brilliant guy and skilled cartoonist and humorist, able to reach beyond mere sarcasm about politics to genuine humor — meaning he…