Never Enough Steinberg And Sempe The pile of books above is within my line of sight from where I work. I realized today that the books almost arranged themselves this way. As each new Steinberg and Sempe title
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Tag: Cartoonists
Thurber Thursday: “Too Much Stuff About The Man And Woman On The Raft And The Two Beachcombers…”
In my current re-reading of Harrison Kinney’s massive (1,238 pages) Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times, I came across a short section devoted to Thurber’s opining, in a letter, on several cartoons in a particular issue of The New Yorker. Each time I had gone over this section in the past I wondered what issue Thurber was talking about.
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Tuesday Spill: Book Of Interest…”If Mr. Brunelle Was Drawn By…”
Book Of Interest: If “Mr. Brunelle” Was Drawn By… I came across this book on Facebook the other day. Intrigued by the cover art, I contacted the author and artist, Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr.. Mr. Brunelle told me: “I am a political cartoonist, whose strip Mr.
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Monday Spill: The New Yorker, Issue Of May 13, 2024; Thank You, ?
The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: um. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Six cartoons, seven cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchpad). No newbies. One duo that we know of. P.C. Vey (see caption contest cartoonists below) whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1993, is
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