Leo Cullum: The Pilot Who Made People Smile; Kim Warp Pencilled

Here’s a nice piece about the late Leo Cullum: “The Pilot Who Made People Smile” from a Bangor Daily News blog. Link here to Mr. Cullum’s New Yorker work.           ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Kim Warp is the latest New Yorker cartoonist to talk about tools of the trade on the blog, A Case For Pencils.  See it here.

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Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik & Bob Mankoff’s Semi-Serious Discussion on Martha’s Vineyard; Fave Photo of the Day

This Friday, Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik & Bob Mankoff will discuss New Yorker cartooning following a screening of the documentary film,  “Very Semi-Serious” Details here. More on the panelists: Mick Stevens’ website Paul Karasik’s blog Bob Mankoff’s website ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Fave Photo of the Day George Booth, Marisa Marchetto Acocella, and Matthew Diffee at this evening’s  NYPL event (see the July

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Booth, Acocella, & Diffee’s Illustrated Conversation at The New York Public Library; Liza Donnelly to Speak at The Norman Rockwell Museum; Michael Crawford’s Paintings Exhibited

George Booth, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, and Matthew Diffee will engage in an illustrated conversation Tuesday, July 21st at the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan Library.  Details here.     Mr. Booth, who began contributing  to The New Yorker in 1969, was recently featured in Richard Gehr’s book of interviews, I Only Read It For the Cartoons.              

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