Where did this Peter Arno drawing appear? Attempted Bloggery is looking for the answer. If it was in The New Yorker, it’s somehow eluded the magazine’s record-keepers. Read more here.
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Cartoon Companion is back with a close and entertaining look at the cartoons appearing in the April 17, 2017 New Yorker. This issue contains, among others, two costumed characters, some apartment-hunting ants, a fashion savvy caveman, some duck-hunters, a couple of booze-themed drawings, and a Victorian selfie stick. Read all about them here.
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Roz Chast is the poster gal for The 2017 National Book Festival. Read about it here.
(My thanks to Mike Rhode for bringing this to my attention).
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From The National Lampoon, here’s a timely cartoon by that funny guy (and Snowman Expert) Bob Eckstein.
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While idly paging through the August 28th 1971 issue of The New Yorker I came across a cartoonist I somehow missed when compiling the Spill‘s” New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Ross Bateup. Mr. Bateup’s work appeared four times: August 8, 1971; October 16, 1971; November 4, 1972; May 19, 1973. Here’s a link to his biography.
Here’s his cartoon from the May 19, 1973 issue:
