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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New ToonStock…Hearts & Romance From ToonStack (how tempted I am to call it ToonStock!), the folks who post a themed collection of cartoons every Sunday, this latest grouping featuring work on romance. Contributors include Johnny DiNapoli, Millie von Platen, Adam Douglas Thompson, Hilary Campbell, Navied Mahdavian, Sofia Warren, Kendra Allenby, Ellis Rosen, J.A.K., Amy Kurzweil*, and the lone non-New
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On this extremely warm Thurber Thursday I was driven (well, I drove myself) to the Spill’s collection of New Yorker Albums (of drawings, or if you’re feeling more contemporary casual, cartoons). It occurred to me this morning that I did not know which Album contained the first Thurber appearance. You might think it appeared in the 1st album, simply titled
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Daily Shouts Today’s Daily Shouts: from the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, “So You Want To Be A New Yorker Cartoonist”* it features drawings by Evan Lian (who did the caricature of Ms. Allen you see here), Hilary Campbell, J.A.K., Victor Varnado, Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Kendra Allenby, Ellis Rosen, and Navied Mahdavian. *the ‘So’ part of the piece’s title
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