Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated The CC boys are back with their thoughts and idiosyncratic ratings for the cartoons appearing in the latest issue of The New Yorker. In this issue are, among others, cartoons featuring dogs, doctors, tombstones, and fish. Read all about everything here. ____________________________________________________________________ A Barbara Shermund Rejected Cover Attempted Bloggery continues its week-long look at proposed,
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Fave Photos of the Day: Liana Finck’s Opening; Attempted Bloggery Looks at Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Fave Photos of the Day: Liana Finck’s Opening Liza Donnelly put on her Ink Spill photographer’s hat last night while attending Liana Finck‘s opening at the Equity Gallery in lower Manhattan (that’s Ms. Finck holding the flowers). My thanks to Ms. Donnelly for providing the photos below:
Read moreBook of Interest: Friedman’s Chosen People; A Searle Reject; A Tilley Paperweight
Book of Interest: Friedman’s Chosen People Due in the Fall from Fantagraphics: a new collection from New Yorker cover artist, Drew Friedman. From the publisher: Featuring over 100 of Drew Friedman’s hyper-realistic portraits of the greats, the near-greats, and the not-so-greats, created over the past decade. Artists, cartoonists, comedians, musicians, actors, politicians, the famous and the infamous, these chosen people
Read moreThurber’s Dogs Set to Music; The Spill Responds to a Response; Time Traveling: Saturday Evening Post Cartoons From the 1950s
Thurber’s Dogs Set to Music Attempted Bloggery has posted this curio: Thurber’s Dogs set to the music of Peter Schickele. Until yesterday, I’d never heard of this. It’s not the first time Thurber’s work has crossed over from print to music. In one of the many high points of Thurber’s career, his best-seller, The Thurber Carnival was transformed into a
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