Celebrating Arno’s birthday this year is especially exciting. As mentioned here recently, his biography will be in bookstores this spring. Until then, here’s a newspaper clipping that nicely bullet points Arno in 1930, five years into his 43 year run at The New Yorker. He was twenty-six at the time, and fast becoming a star, not just in the pages
Read moreMonth: January 2016
Liza Donnelly on the Angouleme Gran Prix Controversy; R.C.Harvey: Single Panel B&W Cartoon Shrinkage at Playboy?
Liza Donnelly, guest blogging on Michael Cavna’s Washington Post Comics Riffs column, weighs in on the Angouleme Gran Prix controversy. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ R.C. Harvey looks at Playboy‘s diminishing number of black & white single panel cartoons in his January 6th Rants & Raves column, “Less Nudity, Fewer Cartoons”
Read moreTom Chitty Pencilled
Tom Chitty, a relative newcomer to the pages of The New Yorker (he was first published there in 2014) is the subject of the latest post from A Case For Pencils, Jane Mattimoe’s very fun blog. See Mr. Chitty’s work on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site. Tom Chitty’s website
Read moreGarrett Price’s “White Boy in Skull Valley” Called “Book of the Year”
Paul Tumey of The Comics Journal, listing his 20 comic favorites of 2015, says of the newly released White Boy in Skull Valley: “For me, this is the best book of the year.” The book, published by Sunday Press Books is out January 8 2016. Read more about it here on the publisher’s website. Here’s Mr. Price’s Ink Spill A-Z
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