Fave Photo of the Day: Cartoonists Celebrate Sam Gross’s Birthday Cartoonists gathered on Manhattan’s upper east side on Thursday to celebrate Cartoon God, Sam Gross, who turned 85 on August 7th. Clockwise from the lower left: Robert Leighton, Bob Eckstein, Maria Scrivan, Nick Downes, Marisa Acocella, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, and Tracey Berglund. –photo courtesy of Bob Eckstein _______________________________________________________ Early
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A Thursday Round-up: Fall Cartoonist Panel of Interest Includes Eckstein, Acocella, Borchart, and Weyant; New Yorker State of Mind’s Look at the Issue of June 8, 1929; Fawkes’ Bronte Book
Fall Cartoonist Panel of Interest Not too early to pencil this one in on your Fall calendar: Bob Eckstein, Marisa Acocella, David Borchart, and Chris Weyant will appear September 29th at the Milford Readers & Writers Festival. Here’s a piece about the festival. __________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State of Mind Goes deep into the New Yorker issue of June 8
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, June 25-29, 2018; On Attempted Bloggery: More Getz
The Daily Cartoon was all Trump all the time this week (whether directly or indirectly). The contributing cartoonists: Pia Guerra, Michael Shaw, Brendan Loper, Pat Byrnes, and Bob Eckstein Over on the Daily Shouts, the contributing New Yorker cartoonists included Liana Finck, Emily Flake, and Tim Hamilton. You can see all the work above and more by going here. _____________________________________________________________
Read moreLibrary of Congress Mini-Slide Show of Interest; A Humor Editors Round-Up; Better Scans From the New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons
The Library of Congress has a very brief slide show up (four images) tied to its new publication and exhibit, Drawn to Purpose. Above, Ethel Plummer’s June 1914 cover for Vanity Fair. See the rest of the work here. _____________________________________________________ A Humor Editors Round-up From The Writer, June 18, 2018, “The lords and ladies of LOL. Inside the minds of
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