Dumas Talk: “How to Live With a Cartoonist”; National Book Foundation Interview with Roz Chast

                Jerry Dumas will be speaking November 18th on “How To Live With a Cartoonist” [above: a snippet of a Dumas New Yorker drawing published in 1974]   ___________________________________________________________________________________________ The National Book Foundation is interviewing its 2014 nominees. Winners of the award will be announced November 19th. Here’s their Roz Chast interview. [photo

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Tomine, Burns, Spiegelman in Brooklyn; The Cartoon Lounge Episode #3

Beginning tomorrow, November 8th and running through November 9th, with guests including Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, and Charles Burns.  All the info here on their website.     ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Filmed deep within the center of The New Yorker’s Cartoon Universe, episode 3 of The Cartoon Lounge, featuring a special appearance by the fellow who reads every single cartoon caption entry.

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Mid-Week Round-Up

Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, has been busy lately, traveling hither and yon, leaving radio interviews, print interviews and articles in his wake. Here’s a sampling: From swarthmore.edu, November 4, 2014, “Getting Serious About Funny Business: Robert Mankoff on Cartoons and  Psychology” Radio interview, wabe.org, November 4, 2014, “Robert Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker” From mlive.

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