Everybody’s Looking for Something I remember my first big “wow!” book discovery: a copy of The New Yorker Album (its first cartoon collection, published in 1928) sitting on a shelf in a used bookstore in Georgetown, D.C.. After finding that Album I returned to the very same store, whenever I was in D.C., hoping for lightning to strike twice (i.e.,
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At Wit’s End Radio Appearance Of Interest Very pleased to join my At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker partner, the photographer Alen MacWeeney tomorrow, December 18th, on WNYC’s “All Of It with Alison Stewart” sometime between 12:30 – 1:00 pm (EST). You can listen, live, here. ____________________________________________________________________ Book On The Horizon…Karasik & Auster’s New York
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“Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” Longtime New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly has curated a whiz-bang of a show at The Society of Illustrators, properly kicking off 2025, the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker‘s birth. “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” features well over a hundred pieces of original art covering the magazine’s
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Article Of Interest…Bruce Eric Kaplan From The Los Angeles Daily News, December 12, 2024, “Cartoonist and TV Vet Bruce Eric Kaplan Details the Hollywood Life in Memoir”. Mr. Kaplan began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991. His latest book is They Went Another Way; A Hollywood Memoir. ________________________________________________________ 1984 Coffee Ad Features Robert Weber Animation (Maybe) My colleague, Joe
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