Curated Cartoons Announced
Beth Lawler, a name you might recognize from her dual online cartoon affiliations, as a co-host of The Cartoon Contest Podcast and founder of the Facebook group, The Cartoon Caption Contest Rejects (and Enthusiasts), has announced “Curated Cartoons.”
The announcement describes Curated Cartoons as a “gateway to acquire original cartoon art published in The New Yorker Magazine…Curated Cartoons represents dozens of New Yorker cartoonists or their estates. We constantly scour auctions, antique stores, flea markets, and conventions so that you don’t have to. Our gallery features hundreds of original published cartoons and we’re constantly working to bring you more.”
Link here to the Curated Cartoons Facebook page. A website is planned.
Note: The drawing in the very nice frame shown in the photo above is this one by David Borchart, published in The New Yorker, April 7, 2014.
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Latest “Case for Pencils” Features Emily Bernstein
Jane Mattimoe’s invaluable blog showing us cartoonist tools of the trade now features Emily Bernstein, who began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2019. See it here.
Be sure to check out Ms. Mattimoe’s archive of other cartoonists while visiting her site.
photo: grabbed from A Case For Pencils
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Books: Re-Reading
I don’t grasp what I read the first, second, or even third time around. It takes a good dousing of the material to seep in. Re-reading helps (a lot).
While new books constantly show up here, and are read, or at least thumbed through, there’s a go-to core group I regularly return to entirely made-up of a handful of New Yorker centric books. One of my all-time favorites is Scott Elledge’s E.B. White: A Biography (published in 1984 by W.W. Norton. The paperback edition came out two years later).
Re-reading usually doesn’t mean a cover-to-cover revisit. In the past few days I zeroed in on two chapters of Elledge’s White bio: New York and The New Yorker (Chapter VI), and “We” (Chapter VII). Reading these chapters — this core New Yorker material — you’ll learn perhaps as much about Harold Ross, The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, as you will about White. Getting ahead of myself, I’ve a feeling the next re-read will be, somewhat ironically,* one of my most revisited books of all: Thurber’s The Years With Ross, and in particular, Chapter III, Every Tuesday Afternoon — Thurber’s account of The New Yorker‘s art and art meeting.
*Ironic because Thurber’s Ross book was not favored by E.B. White or Katharine White.
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Seen On The Silver Screen: Remnick & Ross (Harold)
Watching Lizzie Gottlieb’s excellent documentary film, “Turn Every Page: The Adventures Of Robert Caro And Robert Gottlieb” it was a treat to see The New Yorker‘s current editor, David Remnick* show up waaaaaay bigger than life-size, and, in a nice visual shout-out, to see Harold Ross lingering in the background in Mr. Remnick’s office (via a photo of Mr. Ross, that for ages hung in the hallway of the magazine’s 25 West 43rd St offices).
*The New Yorker’s editors:
Harold Ross 1925-1951
William Shawn 1952-1987
Robert Gottlieb 1987-1992
Tina Brown 1992-1997
David Remnick 1997-
More: also on camera in the film was the terrif Mary Norris (aka “The Comma Queen”). Read her piece on the Gottlieb film here.