The drawings reflect Goya's private passions and concerns and represent an artist off the leash – he could be as funny, rude and macabre as he pleased.
If Miller is troubled by macabre thoughts, he does a good job hiding it: fit, wiry and handsome, he looks younger than his half-century.
Even when Andy Warhol's art was at its most macabre everything he did was engaging, thought-provoking and remarkable.
His showroom, which recently displayed the elaborately macabre coach he designed for "The Munsters," is lined with photos of Mr. Barris posed with celebrities and their cars.
Like his friend Gary Larson, creator of "The Far Side," Mr. Callahan made drawings with a gleeful appreciation of the macabre that he found in everyday life.
In the course of My Luck's journey along the banks of a river down which corpses float "like a macabre regatta," he gives a skeleton a proper burial.
Unlike his new place, which had undergone a "macabre" makeover, he said, with dark-wood furniture and fake Tiffany chandeliers, his neighbor's apartment had barely been touched since 1949 when the Communists took over the city and many of the building's tenants fled.
