A duo on this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (Episode #176 for those keeping track): Shannon Wheeler, and Ken Krimstein. above: from top left, clockwise: Mr. Krimstein, CCCP co-host, Paul Nesja, CCCP co-host Nicole Chrolavicius, Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009, and Mr. Krimstein in 2000. Listen to the podcast here. Link here
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Last Thurber Thursday I wrote of receiving a tower of Thurber files from the one-and-only Michael Rosen. I’ve been s-l-o-w-l-y going through the files, reading news clippings I’d never seen before (so many!). In a 1940 article by Jack Sher “Meet James Thurber” there was this fascinating exchange [slightly abridged below] between Sher and Thurber. Mr. Rosen also seemed
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Latest Arrival: Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund There’s nothing I like better than seeing a New Yorker artist given their due. The work of Barbara Shermund, a major contributor to the magazine from June 13, 1925 through September 16, 1944, had seemed to fade from the conversation over the
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A J.C. Duffy Promotional Video Here’s a two-and-a-half minute slideshow of J.C. Duffy’s work on Curated Cartoons (where you can buy original New Yorker cartoon art). Mr. Duffy created the video and also provided his own original music. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. I believe that the very first meta-New Yorker cartoon was drawn by Mr.
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