— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
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Article Of Interest: Christopher Weyant From Nieman Reports, March 15, 2022, “Drawing The Pandemic: ‘A Cartoon Creates Its Own Little World’” — this short article on Chris Weyant, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. ________________________________________________________________ Interview Of Interest: Charles Addams’s Biographer, Linda H. Davis From wicn.org’s Inquiry, March 14, 2022, “Linda
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“Down To The Bone: Edward Koren and Stephen Gorman” has opened at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. . All the info here! Edward Koren’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Edward Koren Born, 1935. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon, 1980),
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: War The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Nine cartoons, nine cartoonists. No duos (that we know of). No newbies. The longest active contributor in this issue is Sam Gross, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of August
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