Fave Photo Of The Week
2024 Hall of Fame inductee Steve Brodner posted this photo from last night’s Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame Awards dinner. Left to right: Joe Ciardiello, Edward Sorel, Liza Donnelly, James McMullan, Rick Meyerowitz, and Victor Juhasz
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Some New Yorker Folks At Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC)
CXC is a “free comics art and animation festival based in Columbus, Ohio.” Among this year’s participants are several New Yorker contributors: Ed Steed, Kate Beaton, Art Spiegelman, and Francoise Mouly.
The festival runs from September 26th – 29th. All the info here.
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Amanda Chung Is the Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Amanda Chung, who began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2023, guests on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast.
Shown above, from top left, going clockwise: co-hosts Vin Coca, Paul Nesja, and Nicole Chrolavicius; cartoonist Amanda Chung; co-host Beth Lawler.
Listen here (it’s episode #173 for those keeping track).
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Article Of Interest: Linda Davis Talks with Amy Kurzweil
From Jewish Federation Of The Berkshires, September 25, 2024, “How To Draw The Holocaust: A Talk With Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil”
Charles Addams’s biographer (and New Yorker contributor*) Linda Davis, speaks with Ms. Kurzweil, who began contributing to the magazine in 2016. Ms. Kurzweil’s latest book is Artificial: A Love Story.
*A terrific read: Ms. Davis’s piece on E.B. White, “The Man On A Swing” in The New Yorker issue of December 27, 1993