Funny Stuff Authors Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast This week’s guests on the always fun Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast are Phil Witte and Rex Hesner, the co-authors of the just released Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons (featured in yesterday’s Spill post). Shown above, clockwise from the top left: Rex Hesner, Paul Nesja, Phil Witte, and
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A Great Cartoon…By Charles E. Martin (CEM) Three bound volumes of The New Yorker arrived here yesterday — all from the 1950s. It’s just a coincidence that one of them includes the below drawing by Charles E. Martin (he usually signed his work, both cartoons and covers, “CEM”). It’s one of my all-time favorite New Yorker drawings. If you own
Read moreFrom Bob Eckstein’s weekly newsletter, The Bob, April 24, 2023, “The Passing Of A Cartoon Great” Mr. Eckstein leads off his newsletter with a tribute to the artist, Edward Koren, who passed away last week at age 87 after 60 years at The New Yorker. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here.
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Fall Covers: Despite the pandemic, mother nature continues on doing her thing. There’s something reassuring about that (some of the best New Yorker covers have appeared this time of year). Back in 1984 the magazine’s seasonal covers inspired a gallery show and an accompanying book, Seasons At The New Yorker. Besides J.C. Suares’s September 23, 1974 cover that appears on
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