Watching Someone Draw This morning, I happened upon an Instagram video of my New Yorker colleague, Chris Weyant drawing. Even though I spend most of my work day watching drawings of my own appear on paper, I found myself in a kind of drifty zone (no snow punning intended) seeing Chris’s pen move efficiently along the page, creating a
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Christopher Weyant’s Award Congrats to Christopher Weyant (seen here in a photo posted on social media), who won the National Cartoonist Society award in the category of best single panel cartoons* at the Reuben Awards in Boston on the 15th of this month. Mr. Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. Congrats also to
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Video Chat Of Interest: Tom Toro & Christopher Weyant A short but fun conversation between these two cartoonists — some of the discussion centers about their recent childrens books. Watch it here. *** From the Dept. of Shameless Plugs: Both Mr. Toro and Mr. Weyant are profiled in At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker ________________________________________________________ 84 Year
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National Cartoonists Society Single Panel Nominees Three New Yorker folks have been nominated in the single panel cartoon category (the NCS calls the category “Gag Cartoons” but I can’t bring myself to call single panels that). The three: Amy Hwang, Dan Misdea, and Christopher Weyant. Amy Kurzweil was nominated in the “Online Comics –Long Form” category. New Yorker cover artist,
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