麻省理工学院的艺术史研究者认为，中国漫画家张光宇的绘画风格深受墨西哥漫画家科瓦鲁维亚斯的影响 - The modernist predilection for primitive art can be seen in an image by a Mexican artist (above, left，by Miguel Covarriubias，1934), and mirrored by a Chinese artist in Modern Sketch (above, right by Zhang Guangyu，1935).

• The Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), a caricaturist for New York Vanity Fair who visited Shanghai in 1934, had a direct influence on several Chinese cartoonists’ style. For instance, Covarrubias’s clean, linear drawing style seems mirrored in the work of Zhang Guangyu, as can be seen when comparing certain images by the Mexican and Chinese artists. To conclude that Zhang’s style is derivative of Covarrubias’s, however, ignores how both artists participated in the Modernist predilection for primitive art: Mayan in the case of the Mexican artist, Chinese—and beyond—in the case of Zhang Guangyu. Nor should one assume any stigma was attached to copying foreign models. China’s cartoonists saw imitation as a way of building a foundation for an individual style.

• These pages of type turn out, in our opinion, to be wonderfully decorative; because of the headlines and chapter-titles have been drawn, callibraphically, by a Chinese girl who lives in New York and whose name is Jeanyee Wong.