The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen presents Instagram’s most liked New Yorker cartoons of 2017 (by # of Instagram likes, of course). The list includes cartoons by (in no particular order here) : Farley Katz, Peter Kuper, Liana Finck, Paul Noth, Jeremy Nguyen, Roz Chast, Ben Schwartz, Kim Warp, Mort Gerberg, Emily Flake, Charlie Hankin, Alex Gregory, Maddie Dai,
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Latest New Yorker Cartoons Dissected; George Booth New Yorker Original Cover Art; Blog of Note… A New Yorker State of Mind: Carolita Johnson’s “This Is The Hand”; Cartoons From The Saturday Evening Post; PR: Blitt, Chast
The Cartoon Companion guys, Max & Simon, are back with their customary dissections of the latest New Yorker cartoons. Read it all here. ______________________________________________________________ George Booth New Yorker Original Cover Art Above is the published Booth cover from February 4, 1974. To see the original art visit Attempted Bloggery. Don’t forget! An exhibit of Mr. Booth’s work just opened yesterday
Read moreFave Book Cover (and Book) of the Week: Buzzi & Steinberg; A New Yorker State of Mind Looks at the Issue of August 25th 1928
Fave Book Cover (and Book) of the Week: Buzzi & Steinberg Liza Donnelly recently traveled to the west coast of Italy where she was presented with an award from the Museo della Satira d della Caricatura. She returned home with a box of cartoon books published over there. Among them was the book above, Aldo Buzzi & Saul Steinberg: Un’ Amicizia
Read moreFave Book Find of the Week: Frueh On The Theatre: 1906 – 1962; Sam Marlow Pencilled; New Yorker Cartoonists in Life & Judge; Signed By The Cartoonist; Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker!
Here’s a wonderful collection of the late great Al Frueh’s theater work for The New Yorker and elsewhere. The New York Times had Al Hirschfeld, The New Yorker had Al Frueh. Mr. Frueh’s New Yorker colleague, Brendan Gill provides an informative and insightful intro. For more on Mr. Frueh, here’s a Spill piece about him, “The First New Yorker Cartoon”
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