___________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Groucho’s Hokinson Festival Here’s a fun post from Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery on Groucho Marx’s copy of The Hokinson Festival spotted in a photo. The Festival, published seven years after Ms. Hokinson’s death, is a great addition to any cartoon library. A bonus: it includes color plates of a few of her sixty-eight New Yorker covers.
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The Wednesday Watch: Video Of Interest With Emma Allen And Jeremy Nguyen; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Video Of Interest With Emma Allen And Jeremy Nguyen The New Yorker cartoon editor, Emma Allen speaks, virtually, with cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen in this 8 minute video, “How To Draw A City” Mr. Nguyen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Visit his website here. Ms. Allen was appointed the magazine’s cartoon editor in the Spring of 2017. …and
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Weekend Spill: People, Books & Book People; A Couple Of Ziegler Cows; The Tilley Watch Online, August 10-14, 2020
Off The Spill’s Shelves: People, Books & Book People Here’s a really fun read, published in 1980. Short interviews with a ton of folks, as you see by the list (shown below) on the back cover. My initial interest in this book was that it included New Yorker contributors such as Renata Adler, John McPhee, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of August 17, 2020; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Zoom Panel Of Interest: “Cartooning For Peace”; Interview Of Interest: Jason Chatfield
The Cover: Nice to be back to the weekly…those double issue weeks seems endless. So fun to be greeted by Wayne Thiebaud’s ice cream cone cover when the digital issue filled-in on the screen. Read a Q&A with the artist here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Fifteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons. Generally speaking, more than half are placed well on the page
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