Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon was by veteran New Yorker contributor Liza Donnelly. Ms. Donnelly’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982. Visit her website here.
Ms. Donnelly’s must-have book, Very Funny Ladies (with a foreward by Emma Allen & David Remnick) will be out this November.
Some text from the publisher:
An anthology of funny, poignant, and entertaining cartoons, biographical sketches, and social history all in one, Very Funny Ladies offers a unique slant on 20th-century and early 21st-century America through the humorous perspectives of the talented women who have captured in pictures and captions many of the key social issues of their time. As someone who understands firsthand the cartoonist’s art, Donnelly is in a position to offer distinctive insights on the creative process, the relationships between artists and editors, what it means to be a female cartoonist, and the personalities of the other New Yorker women cartoonists, whom she has known over the years.
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More McPhail
Another November title, IN, is due from Will McPhail, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. Here’s a new piece from The Guardian, “‘Who Are We Performing for?’: Will McPhail On The Strange Art Of Small Talk”
Visit Mr. McPhail’s website here.
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Whitney Darrow, Jr. In Connecticut
From the Westport Arts Advisory Committee, “Culture Corner” — this short piece mentioning the late great Whitney Darrow, Jr., (and showing a Darrow drawing in their collection).
Mr. Darrow’s Spill A-Z entry:
Whitney Darrow, Jr. Born August 22, 1909, Princeton, New Jersey. Died August, 1999, Burlington, Vermont. New Yorker work: 1933 -1982. Quote (Darrow writing of himself in the third person): …in 1931 he moved to New York City, undecided between law school and doing cartoons as a profession. The fact that the [New Yorker’s] magazine offices were only a few blocks away decided him…” (Quote from catalogue, Meet the Artist, 1943)