From newyorker.com, August 7, 2013, “Performance Enhancement in Baseball” — an illustrated post by Jason Novak and Mike Duncan. (Above: one of Mr. Novak’s drawings from the piece). and… Another interesting post from Attempted Bloggery, August 9, 2013, “Rea Irvin: Vacationtime in the Virgin Islands”
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Felipe Galindo on Falling Into Steinberg’s Orbit; Rea Irvin, Costumed
The other day I was engaged in an email exchange with long time New Yorker cartoonist Felipe Galindo (he uses the pen name “Feggo”) about Iain Topliss’s Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg; more specifically, we were discussing the section devoted to Steinberg. After Felipe explained what an impact Steinberg’s work
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A fun way to begin the day with this brief but informative post from Stephen Nadler’s blog, Attempted Bloggery: “The Alliterative Jack Ziegler” (above: Ziegler’s 1978 classic cartoon collection, Hamburger Madness)
Read moreAn Arno Easter Cover, and more…
From Stephen Nadler’s fun blog, attemptedbloggery, March 30, 2013, “Peter Arno’s Easter Parade” — Mr. Nadler takes us back to 1931 and the era of top hats on Fifth Avenue. And… On The New Yorker’s website there’s a look at more recent (1993 – 2010) Easter covers that have adorned the magazine.
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