Funny Stuff Authors Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast This week’s guests on the always fun Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast are Phil Witte and Rex Hesner, the co-authors of the just released Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons (featured in yesterday’s Spill post). Shown above, clockwise from the top left: Rex Hesner, Paul Nesja, Phil Witte, and
Read moreFrom Bob Eckstein’s weekly newsletter, The Bob, April 24, 2023, “The Passing Of A Cartoon Great” Mr. Eckstein leads off his newsletter with a tribute to the artist, Edward Koren, who passed away last week at age 87 after 60 years at The New Yorker. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here.
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3 More Thurber At Auction The latest Swann Illustration auction catalog is now online. Among the work by New Yorker contributors Charles Addams, William Steig, Edward Sorel, George Price, Lee Lorenz, R.O. Blechman, Frank Modell, John Held, Jr., Barbara Shermund, Rea Irvin, Mischa Richter, C.E.M. (Charles E. Martin), and Richard Taylor, are 3 drawings by James Thurber. “Are there
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Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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