Collaborating Cartoonists; Video: Charles Addams

    Collaborating cartoonists have been on my mind recently. Who are they, why do they do it?  Does it double the fun? A spate of collaborations in The New Yorker within the past year caused me to dig into the subject and ask a few questions. To begin with, here’re a few words on the subject, written sixty years

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Eckstein Off the Beaten Path

                If you happen to be heading off to see “the southernmost glacial lake in the hemisphere that has been preserved in pristine condition totally free from development or encroachment” you’d find yourself in the Poconos, in northeastern Pennsylvania, visiting the Lacawac Sanctuary.  While there you’d have a decent chance of running into

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In the Newspapers: Krimstein, Karasik & Eckstein

The work of three New Yorker cartoonists appeared in their local newspapers in the past few days:   Bob Eckstein in The New York Times.   (And for more about Mr. Eckstein, link here to his website) Ken Krimstein in The Chicago Tribune Paul Karasik in The Vineyard Gazette (for more about Mr. Karasik, link here to his blog).

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