Liza Donnelly Returns To Oscar’s Red Carpet
Liza Donnelly will be back on Oscar’s Red Carpet tomorrow night for her fifth year of live-drawing. Five years ago she made Oscar history by being the very first cartoonist to draw while on the Red Carpet. She began posting drawings yesterday, and will continue posting today, leading up to her coverage of tomorrow night’s big shindig. Follow her on Instagram & Twitter: @lizadonnelly
Above: Ms. Donnelly yesterday on the mostly still-covered red carpet.
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Thurber’s First New Yorker Drawing
A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker, takes a close look at the issue of January 31, 1931, which boasts James Thurber’s inaugural New Yorker cartoon appearance. Read it here.
According to Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968), Thurber’s previous published drawing appeared in his college’s magazine,Ohio State’s Sun-Dial, March 1918.
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A listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features during the week
The Daily Cartoon:
Ellis Rosen, Jon Adams, J.A.K., Chris Weyant, Trevor Spaulding
Daily Shouts: Ali Fitzgerald, J.A.K., Olivia de Recat (with Sarah Vollman)
...and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook.
SO glad to see you there!