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Edward Koren Book Events; An Early Release Of Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; Colin Tom Is Pencilled; Live New Yorker Cartoons On Late Night With Seth Meyers; Cartoon Companion Rates The Latest New Yorker Cartoons

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From UV Index, November 8, 2018, “Ed Koren, the ‘New Yorker’ cartoonist who served as Vermont’s cartoon laureate, releases new book” — this press release mentioning two upcoming events featuring Mr. Koren.

Ed Koren began contributing to The New Yorker in 1962. Link here to his website.

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An Early Release of Next Week’s Cover

As happens every so often, the magazine has early-released its upcoming cover (cover artist: Barry Blitt). You can read about it here. 

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Colin Tom Pencilled

Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils’ spotlight falls on Colin Tom. Mr. Tom began contributing to The New Yorker in 2015.

Go here to read all about Mr. Tom’s  tools of the trade.

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Live New Yorker Cartoons On Late Night With Seth Meyers

The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick (above left) returned to NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers” for the seventh installment of “Live New Yorker Cartoons” (this one carried the tag, “Raiders of the Lost Snark”). Cartoons by Liam Walsh, Liana Finck, Jon Adams, Zach Kanin, and Mick Stevens were brought to life.  See it here.

And:  here’s Mr. Remnick’s sit-down chat with Mr. Meyers. It includes some interesting cartoon talk.

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Cartoon Companion Rates The Latest New Yorker Cartoons

The CC’s “Max” and “Simon” focus on all the cartoons in the latest issue of the New Yorker (the one with the row boat on the cover). Read it here.

 

Event Of Interest: The Surreal McCoy’s Wolf Of Baghdad; Fave Photo Of The Day: Liza Donnelly & Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

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Event Of Interest: The Surreal McCoy’s Wolf Of Baghdad

Here’s the info about this upcoming audio-visual project based on The Surreal McCoy’s graphic novel, The Wolf of Baghdad.

…and here’s an interview with Ms. Isaacs (aka the Surreal McCoy) from Jewish Renaissance magazine (October 2018).

Ms. Isaacs began contributing to The New Yorker in August of 2014.

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Fave Photo Of The Day: Liza Donnelly And Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

Taken at last night’s event, “Power Talk with Liza Donnelly” at Barnard College, New Yorker cartoonists Ms. Donnelly (on the left) and Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell.

And a bonus photo, courtesy of Marcie Jacobs-Cole:  Ms. Donnelly being interviewed by Jenna Freedman, Barnard’s Zine Librarian. 

Illustrated Interview Of Interest: Liana Finck; Two Events Tonight Of Interest: Bob Eckstein At Book Culture; “A Power Talk With Liza Donnelly” At Barnard College

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From The Huffington Post, November 6, 2018, “A Visual Interview with Liana Finck”  — this illustrated interview with Ms. Finck, whose well received graphic memoir, Passing for Human was recently released.

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Bob Eckstein at Book Culture

A reminder that New Yorker cartoonist and world’s leading authority on the snowman will be at Book Culture this evening discussing his latest book, The Illustrated History of The Snowman.   All the info here.

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Liza Donnelly at Barnard College

Another reminder: “Power Talk with Liza Donnelly” is tonight at Barnard College — Ms. Donnelly was recently named by Barnard as a distinguished fellow. The interview will take place at 6:30 in the James Room of Barnard Hall.  — all the details here. 

Auction Of Interest: Peter Arno, William Steig, Arnie Levin, Charles Addams, Frank Modell, Charles Saxon, And More

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Thanks to Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery for alerting the Spill to the new Swann catalog, which contains an abundance of New Yorker art.  A highlight, shown above, is Peter Arno’s New Yorker cover of April 4, 1964. Here’s what it looked like as the published cover:

Other New Yorker work offered by Charles Addams, William Steig, Charles Barsotti, Arnie Levin, Richard Decker, Frank Modell, James Daugherty (aka “Jimmie-the-Ink”), Heidi Goennel, Garrett Price, Mischa Richter, Charles Saxon, George Price, Theodore Haupt, Arthur Getz, R.O. Blechman and the King of the Gagwriters, Richard McCallister. Empty the piggy bank!

 

 

The Tilley Watch

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With this week being a big election moment and all, I was expecting the just published New Yorker cover would be political. And maybe it is in a strange way — maybe we need a calm moment in the storm.  Still, I found myself looking very closely at cover artist Eric Drooker‘s bank of leafy trees thinking maybe I’d spot the face of Beto O’Rourke or Ted Cruz, or Stacey Abrams, or Trump  hidden ala the Beatles on the cover of the Rolling Stones “Their Satanic Majesties Request” album. But no.

The cartoons:

Fourteen cartoons in this issue and nineteen illustrations (five and-a-third of the latter are full pages).  Here are the cartoonists in the issue:

Of note: I believe this is the debut print cartoon for David Ostow (someone please correct me if I’m wrong). If correct, Mr. Ostow is the eighth new cartoonist introduced this year, and the twentieth new cartoonist brought in under Emma Allen’s watch as cartoon editor.

Trivia: the highest number of cartoonists to debut in a single year: eighteen (in 2016). That was in the pre-Emma Allen era.