Podcast Of Interest: Joe Dator Mr. Dator, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006, was a guest on The Better Breakroom. Visit his website here. ________________________________________________________________ Podcast Of Interest: Chris Ware Chris Ware was Gil Roth’s most recent guest on his long-running (and cartoonist-filled) podcast The Virtual Memories Show. Mr. Ware began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999.
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The Weekend Spill: Donnelly & Thurber’s Influence; A Thurber Event At The Society Of Illustrators; The Tilley Watch Online; Interview Of Interest: Seth; Chris Ware In Conversation With Chip Kidd
Donnelly & Thurber’s Influence From The Cleveland Plain Dealer (cleveland.com), September 1, 2019, “James Thurber continues to influence today’s cartoonists” — this piece by Marilyn Greenwald ___________________________________________ A Thurber Anniversary Event At The Society Of Illustrators From The Society Of Illustrators, this notice of a Thurber event this coming October. Coinciding with the 125th birthday celebration publication of Collected Fables
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker (Double) Issue Of August 5 & 12, 2019; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
The Cover: Lotsa ice cream on Olimpia Zagnoli’s second New Yorker cover. I’m immediately reminded of any number of early Vogue covers. Read the Cover Story here. The Cartoonists: …a newbie: Lisa Rothstein is the 22nd new cartoonist added to the magazine’s stable this year, and the 48th new cartoonist added since cartoon editor Emma Allen’s tenure began in May
Read moreBook On The Horizon…”A Mile And A Half Of Lines: The Art Of James Thurber”; Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly; Audio Of Interest: Roz Chast; Audio Of Interest: Bob Eckstein: Chris Ware In School; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Farley Katz
Coming this July from Ohio State University Press, A Mile And A Half of Lines: The Art Of James Thurber. Edited by Michael Rosen, with contributions from Rosemary Thurber, Liza Donnelly, Seymour Chwast, Ian Frazier, and yours truly. From the publisher: Humorist, cartoonist, writer, playwright. James Thurber was to the twentieth century what Mark Twain was to the nineteenth. At
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