From Newseum.org, December 19, 2014, “Remembering the Journalists We Lost” — among those remembered is the great New Yorker cartoonist, Charles Barsotti. Visit Mr. Barsotti’s website here.
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Book of Interest: Gehr’s I Only Read It For The Cartoons
Out today is Richard Gehr’s I Only Read It for the Cartoons (New Harvest), a collection of interviews with the following: Lee Lorenz, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, George Booth, Edward Koren, Charles Barsotti, Arnie Levin, Victoria Roberts, Gahan Wilson, Jack Ziegler, Zach Kanin, and Bob Mankoff. A wonderful addition to any cartoon library.
Read moreDavid Remnick returns to Late Night with Live Cartoons
New Yorker editor David Remnick made a return appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, witnessing then commenting on a handful of the magazine’s cartoons brought to life. The featured cartoons by: Christopher Weyant, Harry Bliss, Emily Flake, Zachary Kanin, and the late Charles Barsotti. Link here to see the piece. And if you want to see the
Read moreDavid Remnick on Charles Barsotti; The Daily Cartoon handed off to…
This week’s New Yorker (issue dated June 30, 2014) contains a Postscript written by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick. The piece, spread across the magazine’s gutter, includes four Barsotti drawings. Of Barsotti’s work, Remnick writes (in part): In his peculiarly enchanted kingdom, any being or object was capable of speech and wit: there were talking noodles, boxes, fruit,
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