Joe Dator is the subject of this short video by Sam Vladimirsky.
Mr. Dator began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006.
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Julia Wertz Speaks
From newsarama, this notice that Julia Wertz will speak this July at the California College of the Arts. All the Info here.
Ms. Wertz began contributing to The New Yorker in 2015.
Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils returns with a look at Victoria Roberts’ tools of the trade. See it here!
Ms. Roberts began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988.
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Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art
This week Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery looks at items acquired at the MoCCA Fest. Today it’s John Cuneo‘s Not Waving But Drawing. Read it here. Above right: Mr. Cuneo’s most recent New Yorker cover.
Photo above: Mr. Cuneo in the foreground seated next to Anelle Miller, the Director of The Society of Illustrators. In the back, from left to right: Cartoonist Felipe Galindo, Stephen Nadler, and cartoonist Marc Bilgrey (photo courtesy of Liza Donnelly).
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Seth’s Commencement Address
From The Comics Journal, May 22, 2018, “Seth’s 2018 Center For Cartoon Studies Commencement Speech” — read the entire address here.
Seth began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002.
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A Split-Second Encounter With Philip Roth
Back in the Fall of 2014, driving on Columbus Avenue, I made a right turn onto West 79th Street. As my wife and I once had an apartment on 79th I often made a point of driving past the address on the way back upstate. For some reason on this particular day, after rounding the corner, and well short of our old apartment building, I immediately pulled over on the north side of the street and illegally parked for a moment. Just then a taxi pulled right in front of me, and parked. The right side back door of the taxi opened and a fellow holding a cane gingerly got out. He started to make his way to the rear of the cab and then began to negotiate between the cab’s rear bumper and my front bumper. I wanted the guy to know I wasn’t going to move my car while he was there — a simple courtesy — so I looked right at him, and he looked right at me (I suppose to make sure I wasn’t going to move my car): it was Philip Roth. I waited til he’d crossed diagonally southwest on 79th before taking the picture you see above. A nice split-second encounter with a favorite writer.
From the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, May 22, 2018, “Cartoonist Spiegelman to Receive MacDowell Medal”
–Mr. Spiegelman began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992.
Gayle Kabaker‘s charming cover kicks off summertime ’18 (you can read about the cover here).
Just for fun I’m showing the cover of every last issue of May from 1925 through 2015, one from each decade.
May 30, 1925: Ilonka Karasz; May 25, 1935: Constantin Alajalov; May 26, 1945: Constantin Alajalov; May 28, 1955: A. Birnbaum; May 29, 1965: Arthur Getz; May 26, 1975: Robert Tallon; May 27, 1985: Gretchen Dow Simpson; May 29, 1995: Mark Ulriksen; May 30, 2005: Peter de Seve; May 25, 2015: Carter Goodrich
And now to the new issue.
From the Department of Just Sayin’ : There are 18 cartoons and 17 illustrations (3 of the illustrations are full page)… Rea Irvin’s classic Talk of The Town Masthead is still a-missin’. It’s a thing of beauty. This is what it looks like:
I’m going to mention just one drawing from this issue (if you want critical writing on the cartoons I suggest you head over to Cartoon Companion, where each drawing is discussed and rated from 1 – 6). Charlie Hankin’s drawing (it’s on page 61) reminded me of Jack Ziegler’s work. That of course is a very good thing. Mr. Hankin gives us a lovely (and large) drawing of the Metropolitan Opera House — obviously there’s more to it than that; you can see it here, along with all the other drawings in the issue. Mr. Ziegler’s was a cartoon world created to amuse himself; his way-out-there graphic and humorous takes on just about everything were his cartoon calling card. It’s good to see someone (Mr. Hankin in this case) give us such a fun drawing to look at and live with.
Finally, some paperwork. A new cartoonist in this issue: Jessica Olien. If my record keeping is correct, Ms. Olien is the 15th new cartoonist — the 4th this year — brought on board since Emma Allen took charge of the magazine’s Cartoon Department in May of 2017.
Here’s the list of cartoonists in this week’s issue:
You might notice a co-credited cartoon: Kaamaran Hafeez and Al Batt. It’s not the first time a cartoonist has shared credit with a gagwriter, but it’s still a rarity.
— See you next week
A number of New Yorker cartoonists graphically covered yesterday’s big wedding. Liza Donnelly, (here, and here too), wearing her CBS Resident Cartoonist hat, Bob Eckstein, at Esquire, Ellis Rosen (Esquire via Instagram), and Will McPhail, on newyorker.com.
The Daily Cartoon continues to reside in Trumpland (no surprise!), with an exception for today’s big wedding in jolly ‘ole England. This week’s artists: Ellis Rosen (Royal Wedding), Olivia de Recat (Trump), Jeremy Nguyen (Trumpish), Peter Kuper (Trumpish), David Sipress (Trumpish).
New Yorker cartoonists contributing to Daily Shouts: Liana Finck, Will McPhail, Sara Lautman, and special mention to Colin Stokes, the New Yorker‘s Assistant Cartoon Editor for his piece.
To see all of this work, and more, go here.
