One Of The Ones To Watch At DOC NYC Fest: “Stevenson Lost And Found”; Reminder! Peter Kuper Tonight At Greenlight; A Liana Finck Exhibit; Andy Friedman (aka Larry Hat) On Panel With Billy Joel; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Ward Sutton; Review Of Interest: “Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made The Funnies Funny”

James Stevenson Film One Of Ones To Watch At Doc NYC Fest From Bedford + Bowery, November 6, 2019, “What To Watch At This Year’s Doc NYC Festival” James Stevenson’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New Yorker work: March 10, 1956 -. Stevenson interned as an office boy

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A New Yorker Culture Desk Piece Of Interest By Andy Friedman; Today’s Daily Shouts By Ivan Ehlers

Culture Desk Piece of Interest An illustrated piece from Andy Friedman,“Talking Baseball, Broadcasting, and ‘Brockmire’ with Hank Azaria.” Mr. Friedman, sometimes published in The New Yorker as Larry Hat, was at one time an assistant in the magazine’s cartoon department. He began contributing his cartoons to the magazine in April of 2001. Below: a Larry Hat New Yorker drawing, published

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Ralph Steadman Pencilled; Andy Friedman on Andrew Wyeth’s 100th; A Language Blog Looks at the Language of New Yorker Cartoons; “How Do You Draw the Devil?”

Ralph Steadman Pencilled In a special edition of Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils she interviews the legendary Ralph Steadman.  Mr Steadman (seen to the left Skyping with Ms. Mattimoe) has contributed illustrations to The New Yorker as well as an “Artist Sketchbook” or two —  read the Pencils post here!

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Wall-to-Wall Cartoonists at David Remnick’s Hello Goodbye Party

The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick threw a Hello Goodbye party last night (Hello, Emma Allen, the magazine’s new cartoon editor; Goodbye, Bob Mankoff, the former cartoon editor). It was, by far, the largest gathering of New Yorker cartoonists sinceĀ  1997, when forty-one gathered for an Arnold Newman group photo (it appeared in the magazine’s first cartoon issue, December 15,

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