Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow & The Little King (IDW Publishing, 2012) Introduction by Ivan Brunetti Foreward by Jared Gardner What’s not to like about this handsome volume? If I had my way every cartoonist of note would celebrated thusly: beautifully reproduced work (both black & white and color), with a thorough and informed foreward. Mr. Gardner takes us
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The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
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The New York Times has reported that New Yorker cartoonist Al Ross has died. Al, who was 100, easily held the title of most senior member of this cadre. He contributed over six hundred drawings to the magazine, from November 27, 1937 through February 18, 2002. There were a number of veteran cartoonists who warmly welcomed me when
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