Two books of interest coming this year: The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker by Janet Groth (Algonquin Books, June 26, 2012) and Francoise Mouly’s Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See (Abrams, April 30, 2012). For more details go to your favorite online book dealer’s site.
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Classic Addams Original to be Auctioned; History Channel Club on Addams; The New Yorker Cartoons on Facebook
From Attempted Bloggery, January 18, 2012, “A Charles Addams Tearjerker” — this post concerning a classic Charles Addams original drawing (it appeared in The New Yorker, March 23, 1946) to be auctioned this March 1 -2. From The History Channel Club, January 18, 2012, “Remembering Charles Addams” Be sure to visit the The New Yorker Cartoons on Facebook. A
Read moreProfile: Bob Mankoff; Catching up with: Farley Katz
From krishnkaushik.wordpress (Expletive Deleted), January 17, 2012 “The Cartoon Czar (Plans to Build a Moat) ; An amateur profile of Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker” From the San Antonio Express-News, January 18, 2012, “Cartoonist Farley Katz draws on absurdity”
Read moreExhibit: John Norment
New Puppy LA will exhibit work by the late John Norment, February 11 — March 11. Details here. From his Ink Spill New Yorker Cartoonists A- Z entry: Born, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1911. Died, Westport, Connecticut, 1988. New Yorker work: fourteen drawings and two covers, between 1969 and 1982. According to his website (run by his niece) Norment had a
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