The New Yorker’s Cartoons of the Year 2014 is out this week. As in the past, Ink Spill is providing a handy index to the drawings and artists within (there is no index in the publication itself). So if
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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
Read moreTomine, 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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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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