Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils returns with a look at Victoria Roberts’ tools of the trade. See it here! Ms. Roberts began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. _____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art This week Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery looks at items acquired at the MoCCA Fest. Today it’s John Cuneo‘s Not Waving But Drawing. Read it here.
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Interview of Interest: Sam Gross; Cartoon Companion Rates the Latest New Yorker Cartoons; Lots More E. Simms Campbell on Attempted Bloggery; Jack Ziegler: Calmly Zany
Interview of Interest: Sam Gross Yesterday Jane Mattimoe gave us an audio snippet of her recent interview with the great Sam Gross. Today we get the whole print interview right here. _________________________________________________________________ Cartoon Companion Rates the Latest New Yorker Cartoons The CC”s “Max” and “Simon” return with their up-close takes on each and every cartoon in the new issue (y’know,
Read moreLiza Donnelly’s Drawings From Dubai; Audio of Interest: Sam Gross; Noth’s New Book
Liza Donnelly’s Drawings From Dubai Liza Donnelly just spent a week live-drawing in Dubai at the Global Education and Skills Forum for the presentation of the Teacher Skills Prize. Here are her graphic impressions of what she saw. ______________________________________________________________________ Audio of Interest: Sam Gross Courtesy of Jane Mattimoe (A Case For Pencils), here’s a short audio clip of the great
Read moreRoz Chast Looks For A Pen; Tomorrow Night’s Book Signing of Interest: Marcellus Hall; Exhibit of Interest: Addams, Chon Day, Gahan Wilson, John Held Jr., Kunz, Jonik, Eckstein, Caldwell & More; Sarah Boxer in The Atlantic: “Why Is Trump So Hard to Caricature?”
Roz Chast Looks For a Pen A fun post on Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils blog: Roz Chast is asking for pen suggestions. Read it here. Note: Ms. Chast (along with the cover artist, Liniers, and several others) is a guest of honor at the upcoming MOCCA Festival at the Society of Illustrators. Info here. _________________________________________________________________ Tomorrow Night’s Book Signing
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