Politics reigns in New Yorker’s Cartoon Issue.

  Out now: The 2012 New Yorker Cartoon Issue.  This is the 15th year the Cartoon Issue has appeared. That first issue, dated December 15, 1997, featured a cover collage of cartoonists’ work, a fold out Arnold Newman photograph of forty-one of the magazine’s cartoonists and one of my all-time favorite Jack Ziegler cartoons (it appeared in the Comment section).

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Mick Stevens’ dots, Facebook and The New Yorker

  By now the whoop-dee-doo over Facebook’s temporary shutdown of The New Yorker’s Facebook page over a cartoon (seen above) by Mick Stevens has been covered by a multitude of sites.  If you missed the story check out  these posts: first, the New Yorker’s cartoon editor’s blog,  this Daily News post, and finally, this post from The Daily Mail (UK).

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Gallery New World Stages Exhibit includes work by Eckstein, Galindo, Hwang, Forsch & Wheeler

  From broadwayworld.com, September 5, 2012, “Gallery New World Stages Opens First Contact: UFOs, Aliens and Broadway“.  Among the exhibitors are Bob Eckstein, Felipe Galindo, Evan Forsch, Amy Hwang and Shannon Wheeler. Exhibitors: Amy Hwang, Bernard Stote, Bob Eckstein (author of The History of the Snowman), Brett Marek, Chainsaw Chuck Majewski (Rat Fink), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Eric Rosner, Evan Forsch,

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