From Artfixdaily.com, March 7, 2012, “Gil Elvgren dominates $3+ million Heritage Auctions illustration Art Event in Beverly Hills” (Chas Addams content about midway down: Addams’ Sad Movie original set a world record for an Addams’ original, selling for $40,625. You’ll also find a link to the Heritage Auction listing). From Melville House Books, March 7, 2012, “Leigh Stein &
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Wolcott Gibbs and New Yorker Cartoons
Of all the duties Wolcott Gibbs attended to during his thirty-one years at The New Yorker (and his duties were many: editor, writer, theater critic), his relationship to the magazine’s cartoonists (or “artists” as the magazine calls them) is probably the least examined. When Gibbs began at The New Yorker, working under Katharine Angell (later, after marrying E.B. White,
Read morePosted Note: Happy 87th
With The New Yorker’s 87th birthday just around the corner (the very first issue was dated February 21, 1925) I thought it would be fun to muse about the magazine’s present cartoon universe. What New Yorker cartoonists do so well and have done so well over eight decades is knee-jerk to their time. The New Yorker’s hands-off system, begun by
Read morePodcast: A conversation with Alex Gregory, Pete Holmes and Matt Diffee
From You Made It Weird, January 27, 2012, this hour and twenty minute podcast featuring Alex Gregory and Matt Diffee in conversation with Pete Holmes.
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