David Remnick Laughs Mr. Remnick, The New Yorker‘s editor, was a guest on Inside The Hill the other day. See his reaction when presented with a couple of cartoon ideas by a couple of cartoon characters (the cartoon section begins at the 3:40 mark). _____________________________________________________________________________ Thurber Prize Finalists Announced ____________________________________________________________________________ The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest:
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An Arno Auctioned Attempted Bloggery tells us about a recently auctioned Peter Arno original. Shown here is just a fragment of the drawing (I just love Arno’s signature). To see the entire piece and read the AB post, go here: “Peter Arno: The Ethical hunter.” Peter Arno’s A-Z Spill entry: Peter Arno (Pictured above. Source: Look, 1938) Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr.,
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“Drawing Life” With Liza Donnelly From The Norman Rockwell Museum, this news of an “online and on-demand program of sketching and conversation about creative expression, the power of persuasion, and illustration” with Liza Donnelly, a long-time New Yorker contributor (Ms. Donnelly first sold a drawing to the magazine in 1979). The event takes place on January 19, 2023.
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Attempted Bloggery On An Interesting Auctioned New Yorker Cover Submission A Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery comes up with a very interesting cover submission (shown here) by an artist unfamiliar to me (I’m better at recalling cartoonists who are/were also cover artists than cover artists who aren’t/weren’t cartoonists). According to AB, Madeline S. Pereny sold three covers to The New
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