Chris Ware speaks; Beaton & Chast at SPX; Golf exhibit includes New Yorker cartoons; Brunetti at Chicago ComicCon

From This is Reno, August 10, 2011, “Writers in the Woods Literary Speaker Series starts September 2011” — ( Chris Ware to speak and workshop)   From Comics Beat, August 11, 2011, “SPX announcing programming with Woodring, Beaton, Telnaes, Chast, Brown”   From Access Atlanta, August 11, 2011, “High Museum tees up ‘Art of Golf’ in 2012” (scroll way down

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Robert Mankoff and the Benign Violation Theory

From the blog, Westword, July 15, 2011: “Peter McGraw, Humor Research Lab director, takes his comedy theory to the International Humor Conference” (Robert Mankoff content) …and in case you missed it on The New Yorker’s website, here’s Mr. Mankoff’s recent blog post, “Benign Violations and Distant Mishaps”

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