According to its official website, Funny Business — An Inside Look at the Art of Cartooning, shown last night on New York’s PBS station WNET, will be rebroadcast this Saturday, May 7th, at 3:30 am. The film pays studio visits to a number of New Yorker cartoonists, including Frank Modell, Lee Lorenz (the former Art Editor/Cartoon Editor of The New
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Reminder: Strand event tonight with Booth, Chast, Kalman & Tomine
Visit The Strand’s site here for details of tonight’s event, “Celebrate the Artists of The New Yorker”
Read moreBill Blackbeard 1926 -2011
This obit, “Bill Blackbeard, Champion of Comic Strips, Dies at 84” from The New York Times, April 29, 2011.
Read moreComics Journal Gahan Wilson interview
The second(?) of The Comics Journal’s “Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist” series : this interview with Gahan Wilson , “Gahan Wilson and the Comedy of the Weird,” posted April 27, 2011.
Read moreBooth, Chast, Kalman and Tomine at The Strand
A sure-to-please event at The Strand Bookstore ( 828 Broadway, 2nd Fl.) May 3, 2011, 7 pm — 8 pm, celebrating the winner of the 2011 Eustace Tilley contest and launch of The New Yorker’s Strand tote bag. Francoise Mouly the magazine’s Art Editor, will moderate a panel discussion with George Booth, Roz Chast, Maira Kalman, and Adrian Tomine. Other
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