I couldn’t be more pleased that Attempted Bloggery has posted its first interview; the occasion happily coincides with the publication of Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist. Read it here. Here’s a snippet of the interview: Q: …In 1925 Arno came to the New Yorker during the magazine’s rocky first year.
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Photos of Interest: Sam Gross and Company; Attempted Bloggery’s Arno Week
Courtesy of Bob Eckstein, a quartet of photographs from last night’s event celebrating Sam Gross‘s work. [From the top: Sam Gross; a projected Gross drawing; David Borchart, Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo), and Amy Kurzweil, a brand new New Yorker cartoonist (her first cartoon appeared in the April 4th issue); Mr. Gross and long -time contributor, Mort Gerberg]
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton: 1939 -2016
From SFGate, the sad news that long-time New Yorker cartoonist William Hamilton died Friday in a car accident in Lexington, Kentucky. He was 76. SFGate story here. His New York Times obit here Mr. Hamilton, who contributed over 900 cartoons to the magazine began his career at The New Yorker with the below cartoon in the issue of April
Read moreNew Yorker Artist, Abe Birnbaum: “Nothing’s Ugly. Everything Is What It Is”
Thanks to the treasure trove of scans the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent to this site, we are able to behold this beautiful Abe Birnbaum cover for New Yorker writer Philip Hamburger’s 1949 collection, The Oblong Blur. Though Mr. Birnbaum (who died in 1966) was know principally for his
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