Again with an early release cover! Link here to see what the cover artist, Barry Blitt, had to say about his latest effort (shown above, right). The cartoons: Fourteen cartoons in this first issue of September: seven by women, seven by men. No more mentions here of gender balance/imbalance unless/until there’s an all female cartoonists issue (or an all male
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Cat Cartoons a-plenty in the Big New Yorker Book of Cats
Coming October 1st from Random House: The Big New Yorker Book of Cats ( you may remember that The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs was published almost exactly a year ago). As you’d expect, the book boasts a huge number of cat themed cartoons and covers. Here’s a list of the cartoonists represented: Charles Addams, Harry Bliss,
Read moreAnatol Kovarsky at 94: Still Drawing After All These Years
At 3 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon in late June, my wife and I, wearing our cartoonist historian hats, were welcomed into an apartment in a pre-war building along Manhattan’s west side. We made our way through a short hallway to a foyer lined with paintings. There were paintings on the walls, and paintings lined
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