Can’t get enough of Liana Finck’s wonderful drawings? Well now you can see three at once on The Toast. Ms. Finck’s website _______________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery continues its close look at The New Yorker’s earliest issues. Today it’s issue #3 (left: a glimpse of Rea Irvin’s cover for the third issue) _____________________________________________________________________ A Case For Pencils continues its
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Update: Postponed! Arnie Levin & Sam Gross in Conversation with Richard Gehr; A Look at The New Yorker’s 2nd Issue; Ben Schwartz on A Case For Pencils
Update: This event postponed. Richard Gehr, author of I Only Read It For The Cartoons, will be in conversation with Arnie Levin and Sam Gross tomorrow at Baruch College. Details here (scroll down for the event). _________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at The New Yorker’s 2nd issue (above: Al Frueh’s cover). Go
Read moreA Case For Pencils Features Liza Donnelly & Liana Finck
Liana Finck and Liza Donnelly are the latest additions to A Case For Pencils, a site devoted to tools of the trade. Go see!
Read moreCast of Characters Cover: Thurber, St. Clair McKelway, Gibbs, Maloney & Parker; More from A Case For Pencils
It being The New Yorker’s 90th anniversary, how fitting that the cover has been revealed for Thomas Vinciguerra’s Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and The Golden Age of The New Yorker. Quite a crew gathered for a book party at the Algonquin Hotel in 1938: seated, left to right, Fritz Foord (who ran Foord’s Sanitarium in
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