The Cover: In Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with this week’s cover artist, Chris Ware, she informs us that the issue is anchored by “a kaleidoscopic account of a single day in New York.” And so we see a cover, in Mr. Ware’s patented style, loaded with snapshots of the city — a cover nearly devoid of people. The Cartoonists: Liza Donnelly,
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The Latest American Bystander; Jason Chatfield’s Covid-19 Diary; Daily Cartoon & Daily Shouts Cartoonists (Yesterday’s & Today’s)…And Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook
The latest American Bystander (March 2020) has landed on my desk — it’s a treat! Here are The New Yorker cartoonists whose contributions you’ll find in the issue (and in the case of John Cuneo, on the issue’s cover): George Booth (besides a full-page Booth drawing there’s a lovely photo of Mr. Booth on the very last page), Roz Chast
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Peter Kuper’s NYTs Silent Spring Piece; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Liza Donnelly’s World Wildlife Fund Earth Day Drawings; The Weekly Humorist’s Cartoon Desk
Peter Kuper’s New York Times Silent Spring Piece From The New York Times Book Review, this graphic review of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring by Peter Kuper, who’s on a roll this week — he also has a full page color Comic Strip in The New Yorker. (read a little about it here at The Daily Cartoonist; a link is supplied
Read moreEarly Release! Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; More Spills…
The third early release New Yorker cover in a month — surely a sign of the times. With the news on overdrive these days I again urge the magazine to consider running an online Daily Cover much as they run a Daily Cartoon and Daily Shouts. In next week’s cover, Eric Drooker recalls the iconic (c.1930) photo of Grand Central
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