Mary Petty Exhibit Opens

Here’s notice of an exhibit of work by the late great Mary Petty,  a New Yorker cartoonist whose name isn’t mentioned often enough here.  All the details.                 Below: the only collection of Ms. Petty’s work, published in 1946.  Preface by James Thurber.

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Interview of Interest: Drew Dernavich

From Discover, April 4, 2016, “Cartoonist Drew Dernavich on Humor, Craft and Drawing for The New Yorker” Link here to Mr. Dernavich’s website   ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vanity Fair weighs in with an Arno piece…(nice photos & a shout out to my forthcoming Arno  biography)                  

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Arno Olio #5: Whiteman’s Burden

From the Dept. of Self-promotion: continuing with this Sunday series leading up the publication of Arno’s biography on April 19th. Today is the fairly obscure title, Whiteman’s Burden, published in 1933 by Viking Press.  Written by the silent film actress, Margaret Livingston Whiteman & writer, Isabel Leighton. The back cover, shown just below the cover scan, nicely explains (using by

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