Peter Arno Born on This Day in 1904

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

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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”

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Tom 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

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