The Professional Cartoonists Organisation has posted the sad news that Alex Noel Watson has passed away. You will read that he was a delightful person, a real character –and that was exactly the case; he was a high-spirited exceptionally friendly man of many talents.
Mr. Watson’s work appears in The New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975-1985. He contributed seven drawings to The New Yorker between 1970 and 1997 (his first appears below — it was in the issue of August 29, 1970). Also shown is the cartoonist company he kept in that issue.
Link here to Mr. Watson’s entry in The British Cartoon Archive
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Book of Interest: I Actually Wore This
Here’s an uncartoony book, with a few New Yorker cartoon folks in it, namely Roz Chast and the magazine’s assistant cartoon editor, Colin Stokes. 
Written by Tom Coleman, with photographs by Jerome Jakubiec. Published by Rizzoli. Published this past March.
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Interviews of Interest: Julia Wertz, Mimi Pond
From the podcast Sagittarian Matters, two recent episodes:
Episode #68 with Mimi Pond (May 26, 2017)
Episode #64 with Julia Wertz (April 28, 2017)