Last night, Liza Donnelly spoke at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum as part of the big Barbara Shermund celebration there. Above: Donnelly’s selfie with a Shermund self portrait. The exhibit, Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life And Art Of Barbara Shermund runs through March 31st. If you’re out that way, this is a
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Book Of Interest: Corey Ford’s Time Of Laughter; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist Is Michael Shaw
Here’s an interesting read, published in 1967 by Little, Brown. Corey Ford’s The Time Of Laughter: A Sentimental Chronicle of the Twenties — The Humor and the Humorists. Ford will be forever remembered (I hope!) as the fellow who gave name to the New Yorker‘s top hatted butterfly inspecting dandy, Eustace Tilley. Here’s Ford talking about naming Tilley: “The New
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Today’s New Yorker Daily cartoon — another take on last night’s State of the Union (Barry Blitt weighed in on the SOTU last night and, before him, Chris Weyant ) — is by Peter Kuper, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1993. Link here to his website.
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From The Comics Beat, February 4, 2019, “Caitlin McGurk on Long Lost Artist Barbara Shermund and Telling A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins”— more on The late great New Yorker artist Barbara Shermund who is currently being celebrated out at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Ohio. And a reminder: Liza Donnelly will be speaking about Ms.
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