Here’s a link to New Yorker cartoonist BEK (Bruce Eric Kaplan) speaking on NPR’s Fresh Air about his forthcoming memoir, I Was A Child. Link here to see his New Yorker work _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery continues its series of close-looks at the earliest issues of The New Yorker. Next up: The 7th issue, April 4, 1925.
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BEK in Conversation
From Live Talks Los Angeles, this notice: On Thursday, April 30, Bruce Eric Kaplan (known to New Yorker cartoon afficiandos as BEK) will be in conversation with B.J. Novak, discussing Kaplan’s upcoming memoir, I Was A Child (Blue Rider Press), All the info here.
Read moreRegan Arts to Publish Maslin Peter Arno Biography, Mad At Something
I’m pleased to announce that Mad At Something, my biography of the late and very great New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno will be published by Regan Arts. Arno is one of the pillars of The New Yorker‘s earliest days, a group that includes Harold Ross, E.B. White, Katharine White, and James Thurber. Ross, the magazine’s founder and first
Read moreA Round-Up of Books to be Released in 2015 by New Yorker Cartoonists
2015 looks to be an exciting year for new books from New Yorker cartoonists. Here’s a sampling: A collection by the one-and-only Gahan Wilson, Out There (Fantagraphics, July 3, 2015). As anyone who visits this site knows, Mr. Wilson was recently the subject of a documentary film by Steven-Charles Jaffe, Born Dead, Still Weird. From
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