“The Funniest Funeral Ever” Above: Liza Donnelly, and Rick Meyerowitz The f-bombs were flying fast and funnily at cartoonist Sam Gross’s funeral on Thursday. A number of other choice words were delivered in the spirit of celebrating Mr. Gross, who was famous
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Pod Of Interest: George Booth Discussed On The Cartoon Pad New Yorker cartoonist, David Borchart discusses the great George Booth, with New Yorker cartoonist colleagues Michael Shaw and Bob Eckstein. Mr. Booth passed away last week at age 96. Listen here. — Above: George Booth and David Borchart, NYC, 2017. Photo by Liza Donnelly. David Borchart began contributing to The
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David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview, Part 2 In Part 2 of my interview with New Yorker cartoonist, David Sipress, whose book, What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonist’s Memoir will be out March 8th, we talk about a dozen or so of David’s New Yorker drawings: where they sprang from, what he was thinking about them at
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Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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