Too early to look ahead to cartoon books coming out in 2013? Nah! Looking through Amazon’s listings for next year, the first title I came upon that caught my eye: VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch by Jon Baril (July 20, 2013, Fantagraphics). From the publisher: VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch is the first time Partch’s
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Steinberg Biography out this month; Video: Watch Donnelly Draw
Out on the 20th of this month from Nan A. Talese is Deirdre Bair’s Saul Steinberg: A Biography. (see your favorite online bookseller for more details). From Publishers Weekly Review: “The pre-eminent New Yorker cartoonist leads a life worthy of his own ironic art in this scintillating biography … Steinberg emerges as a tangle of neurotic contradictions … Bair’s long
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Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, announced today in his weekly blog that newyorker.com is adding a new feature to its content, The Daily Cartoon. One cartoonist will provide topical material five days a week for a month. First up is David Sipress, who has been contributing to the magazine since 1998. Content is up and running.
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From Bado’s blog, October 30, 2012, “The Enigmatic Edward Sorel”
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