______________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Bliss’s Addams Homage Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at the recent New Yorker cover by Harry Bliss — billed as a homage to the great New Yorker artist, Charles Addams. How are they alike; how are they different. Read the piece here. ___________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist is… Liana Finck, who began contributing
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Michael Gerber, the fellow who’s behind the wonderful humor magazine The American Bystander, has unveiled a new website, The 251, “dedicated to publishing prose 251 words or shorter, and cartoons that don’t take longer than four seconds to figure out.” (above: Tom Chitty‘s design for the 251) By the way, if you love cartoon elephants, you’ll be thrilled by this
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Early Richter I’ve always thought that the late Mischa Richter’s cartoon roots were heavily influenced by Peter Arno’s work (something he vehemently denied when I interviewed him in 1999).* This early Mischa Richter drawing currently on Ebay is interesting in that it seems to show a Steig influence. The fellow staring at the wall thermometer is right out of William
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__________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts: Ward Sutton On Proposed Trump Monuments. Mr. Sutton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here. ___________________________________________________________ In honor of Sean Connery, who played James Bond like nobody’s business, this drawing of mine from the archives, published in The New Yorker, August 14, 1995 (Mr. Connery passed away either late Friday
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