Exciting news! The Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library will celebrate the great New Yorker artist, Barbara Shermund, with an exhibit, Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund. This promises to be wonderful show, with “photographs, letters, original art, and books never before displayed…” Curated by by Caitlin McGurk, Assistant Professor
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The New Yorker Encyclopedia Of Cartoons: Gender Studies
Above: two pages of the Index from Volume 1 of The New Yorker Encyclopedia Of Cartoons In his Foreword to The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick has this to say about gender equality in the ranks of New Yorker cartoonists: Any cartoon compilation that draws from these archives makes it clear what a male preserve
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of September 24-28, 2018; Early Release Of Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; A Mystery Cartoonist; Three Cartoonists in Pennsylvania: Cartoon Companion Rates The Latest New Yorker Cartoons; The New Yorker Encyclopedia Of Cartoons: Gender Studies
An atypical less specifically Trumpian Daily Cartoon week — although he hovers. The contributing cartoonists: Kim Warp, Ellis Rosen, Peter Kuper, and Emily Flake. Daily Shouts contributing cartoonists: Amy Kurzweil with illustrations by Ellis Rosen, and Ali Fitzgerald. You can see all the work here. ____________________________________________________________________ Early Release Of Next Week’s New Yorker Cover As happens from time-to-time, the magazine
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Here’s a curiosity for those with deep pockets. According to its listing: This catalogue contains images of 40 of Barbara Shermund’s New Yorker cartoons. It has a one page introduction of her contributions to the Magazine. The cartoons pictured are from the late 1920s and early 1930s. The cartoons are matted and framed. Puzzling why the work is bracketed from
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