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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Harold Ross’s Caption Contest
Less than a year before Harold Ross published the very first issue of his brainchild, The New Yorker, he briefly edited a well-established humor magazine, Judge. I recently bought a copy of the Ross period Judge to see what I could see (it’s the issue of July 19, 1924). it was odd, but of course not unexpected, to
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Two photos, taken December 15, 2014 in lower Manhattan. Above, left to right: Felipe Galindo (Feggo), P.C. Vey, David Borchart, Sam Gross, Colin Stokes (writer & assistant to the New Yorker’s cartoon editor), Liza Donnelly and Joe Dator (who is currently the magazine’s Daily Cartoonist). Below: Liza
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Richard Gehr (pictured on the extreme left), author of the recently published book of New Yorker cartoonist interviews, I Only Read It For the Cartoons, hosted a panel discussion last night at the School of Visual Arts. Panelists (left to right): Sam Gross (filling in for Edward Koren, snowed-in up in Vermont), Victoria Roberts, Lee Lorenz, and
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