Does the name Scudder Middleton mean anything to you? It meant a little something to me, but no so much…until recently when I decided to look a little deeper into his association with The New Yorker’s art department. I’d seen his name on memos while sifting through the magazine’s archives in The New York Public
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Liza Donnelly on the 3rd Annual Festival of Political Cartooning
From forbes.com, April 25, 2013, “Ways to Express Freedom: The Third Annual International Festival of Political Cartooning in Caen, France” — Liza Donnelly, back from the festival, reports (with drawings from her sketchbook, including the one above).
Read moreVideo: Peter Kuper, Art Spiegelman, Tom Tomorrow, Roz Chast among 23 cartoonists Demanding Action
From the Huffington Post, April 23, 2013, “Ruben Bolling: Cartoonists Demand Action to End Gun Violence” (with video).
Read moreSpeaking: Bob Mankoff, Adrian Tomine; Video Preview: Roz Chast on bearing witness
From Virginia’s Washington & Lee University, April 17, 2013, “New Yorker Cartoon Editor to Speak at W&L”— link includes a caption contest designed by Bob Mankoff specifically for the Washington & Lee community (His talk is May 9, 2013). From the North Adams (Massachusetts) Transcript, April 19, 2013, “Cartoonist, illustrator to speak at WCMA” — Adrian Tomine will be
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