PHILIP COLBERT BECAME an artist when he became a lobster. An outlandish statement perhaps, if not for the exactitude with which it encapsulates the nucleus of his artistic persona and cartoon alter-ego. To be a lobster, Colbert explains, “is the freedom of art to really redefine yourself”.
Clearly, Colbert's unorthodox mode of artistic expression has struck a chord in the art world and beyond. The late pioneering editor, André Leon Talley, famously christened him “the godson of
