Reminder: Liana Finck At The Strand Monday Liana Finck’s book tour for her just-about-to-be-released Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints and Notes to Self begins tomorrow at NYC’s legendary Strand bookstore. All the info here. Ms. Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. And… From Attempted Bloggery: Ms. Finck’s promotional postcards tied-in to the purchase of
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Fave Photo Of The Day: George Booth, Mort Gerberg, And Sam Gross; A Chitty Shouts; Article Of Interest: Working At Mad Past Its Heyday; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Two Collaborative Daily Shouts
Fave Photo Of The Day Via Sarah Booth’s Instagram account, three long-time New Yorker cartoonists in front of a tattoo parlor, July 2019. Left to right: George Booth, Mort Gerberg, and Sam Gross. Mr. Booth and Mr. Gross began contributing to The New Yorker in 1969, and Mr. Gerberg in 1965. And…another group photo appears on the drawinglifemovie Instagram account
Read moreHelen Hokinson’s Silent Partner: James Reid Parker; Attempted Bloggery: Peter Arno Uncovered
While reading James Reid Parker’s brief New York Times obit, (published January 31, 1984) I was anticipating at least a mention of his work with one of The New Yorker‘s earliest superstars, Helen Hokinson. In the magazine’s first decades, according to an in-house memo, Ms. Hokinson, along with Peter Arno, was in a special category above all other contributing artists.
Read moreA Charles Addams Biopic In The Works!; A Daily Shouts By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
Well this is exciting news… From Indiewire, June 22, 2019, “Sara Driver Is Back: After ‘The Dead Don’t Die,’ A Charles Addams Project, And Much More” A snippet from Eric Kohn’s article: The project is especially personal to Driver since, like Addams, she was born in Westfield, New Jersey; the cartoonist did much of his work there. “Westfield is a
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