It’s going to be awhile before this appears in bookstores (April of 2016) but the wait will be worth it. Here’s a description from the publisher (Fantagraphics): The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that ran from 1958 to 2001 and published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in an American magazine. The Realist Cartoons collects, for
Read moreMonth: June 2015
Tom Toro Returns as The New Yorker’s Daily Cartoonist; Looking at a 90 Year Old Issue of The New Yorker
Tom Toro (left) has taken The New Yorker Daily Cartoonist baton from Christopher Weyant. Mr.Toro previously did the Daily in early 2014. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ A couple of days ago, A Case For Pencils was mentioned in this space as a new favorite site…today, another favorite, Attempted Bloggery brings to our attention the June 20th 1925 New Yorker (a copy recently sold
Read moreA New “Case For Pencils”
Here’s another post from my favorite new New Yorker cartoonists related website. This entry features Mr. Pencil himself, Matt Diffee, whose new book, Hand Drawn Jokes For Smart Attractive People is now available in your local book store as well as electronically. Matt Diffee’s website. And here’s a link to The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank where you can
Read moreMy Telly Savalas
By July of 1977, when I cracked open a brand new sketchbook, I’d already filled 38 others with drawings that had yet to connect with The New Yorker‘s Art Editor, Lee Lorenz; in other words: I was still an unpublished cartoonist. Of course I didn’t have a
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