From the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, “Art auction in Rhinecliff Saturday” this news of a benefit auction of cartoons, including work by New Yorker artists Charles Addams, George Booth, William Steig, Frank Modell, James Stevenson, Peter Steiner, Lee Lorenz, Harry Bliss, Barbara Smaller, Charles Barsotti, Joe Dator, Gahan Wilson, Robert Mankoff, Liza Donnelly, P.C. Vey, Roz Chast, Danny Shanahan, Carolita
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Q & A with The Receptionist author, Janet Groth
The Receptionist, a memoir by Janet Groth, who worked at The New Yorker for twenty-one years (1957-1978) is set to be released June 26th (Algonquin Books). This Q & A “Meet the Receptionist” can be found on her publisher’s site. (William Shawn, Charles Addams, Charles Saxon, Peter DeVries content). Also, by going to a popular online book seller you
Read moreCharles Addams’ hometown gallery; Once in a lifetime(?) gathering of Comix cartoonists
From NJ.com, May 16, 2012, “It really is a scream: Charles Addams gallery opens at Westfield theater” From The Chicago Tribune, May 16, 2012, “Unlikely gathering of Comix legends comes together at U. of C.” (among those gathering: R. Crumb, Lynda Barry, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Ivan Brunetti, Ben Katchor, Daniel Clowes)
Read moreIn Good Company: a look at the cartoons in Al Ross’s New Yorker debut issue
The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
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