Friday Spill: Podcast Episode Of Interest: Ken Levine On Becoming A Cartoonist; The Daily Cartoonist Shows Us Alan Dunn’s First New Yorker Cartoon

Podcast Episode Of Interest: Ken Levine From Ken Levine, one of the newest of The New Yorker cartoonist newbies (his debut New Yorker cartoon appeared in the magazine’s first issue of 2022):  “Cartooning For Fun And A Little Profit.” Mr. Levine gives us a personal history of his love of and for cartoons. If you want to head right into

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Weekend Spill: Personal Cartoon History; Unfinished Business: Shaw’s Blank New Yorker Drawing & Alan Dunn’s; From Attempted Bloggery…S.J. Perelman & Victoria Roberts Intersect At A French Laundry; The Tilley Watch Online, November 1-5, 2021

________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Cartoon History I was wandering around The New Yorker’s online archive this evening when I came across this drawing of mine from the January 9, 1984 issue. I looked at it for a few seconds then realized that it’s very different from all of my work in the magazine as it’s blatantly autobiographical. What you see is the

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Wednesday Spill: Fave Stand-Up Photos Of The Day: Chatfield, Campbell, Varnado, Flake; Talk Of The Town Cartoons

Fave Stand-Up Photos Of The Day: Chatfield, Campbell, Varnado, Flake We’re used to seeing photos of cartoonists at their drawing boards, hovering over their work. But here are some photos taken last night of four New Yorker cartoonists (mostly) not sitting down, but standing up, doing stand-up, on stage, in front of their projected drawings. The occasion: “Funny On Paper;

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