Book of Interest: An Art Young Anthology

Due March of 2017 from Fantagraphics is an Art Young anthology: To Laugh That We May Not Weep. Here’s some info from the publisher: To Laugh That We May Not Weep is a sweeping career retrospective, reprinting ?often for the first time in 60 or 70 years? over 800 of Young’s timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and illustrations, many reproduced

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Spiegelman on Art Young

From Harper’s issue of January 2016, To Laugh That We May Not Weep, this piece by Art Spiegelman on a nearly forgotten cartoonist, Art Young, who contributed to The New Yorker from 1925 through 1933. Also: be sure to take a look at The Art Young Gallery website. 

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Daedalus Books Celebrates The New Yorker’s 90th; More on the Art Young Exhibit

        This is fun: Daedalus Books & Music has gathered together a bunch of New Yorker related books  on its site in honor of the magazine’s 90th birthday. Go see!   ___________________________________________________________________________________ From CTpost.com, March 31, 2015, “Bethel Cartoonist: First Gallery Exhibit Since 1939” — this piece on the Art Young show in Bethel, Connecticut.

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Art Young Opening! Plus…The Spill’s Mid-Week Round-up: P.C. Vey, Kominsky-Crumb, Kupperman, Mankoff, Katchor, Sikoryak & Mouly; The New Yorker’s 5th issue Gets a Close Look

_______________________________________________________________________________________ P. C. Vey, whose April 15, 2013 New Yorker drawing appears here,  talks about his tools of the trade on A Case For Pencils. Go see! Link here to Mr. Vey’s website Link here to see some of his New Yorker work   _______________________________________________________________________________________ The Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art has announced its MoCCA Fest 2015 line-up. The

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