Latest ToonStack Posted ToonStack is where you’ll find a weekly gathering of cartoons on a theme by (mostly) New Yorker cartoonists. This week it’s “Into The Thick Of It” (cartoons, according to this week’s editor & contributor, Shelby Lorman, about “The Wild”)… contributors include Ellis Rosen, Hilary Campbell, Sofia Warren, Jason Chatfield, Amy Kurzweil, and Kendra Allenby. __________________________________________________________ Sipress Memoir
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What To Do When There’s No Art Meeting I’m guessing that most New Yorker readers are unaware that the magazine’s cartoonists meet a self-imposed weekly deadline for submitting their drawings (“self-imposed” is in italics because it’s important to note). Even those cartoonists with contracts are not obligated to send in every week — or any week, if you’re in a
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I wonder how many book discovery moments folks remember. I have a few memories of “big moments” — finding that book you’ve been looking for for years, or perhaps, finding a book you didn’t know existed. For me, one of the most memorable was the afternoon I took James Thurber’s classic My Life And Hard Times down off the bookshelf
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When Art Becomes Part Of The Story Those following news of The New Yorker and The New Yorker Union may have come across two graphics in the past week that have received a lot of attention. The first is a mock New Yorker cover, created by Genevieve Bormes, associate covers editor (the magazine’s art editor –the editor in charge of
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