Attempted Bloggery’s Arno Quest It took a long long time — decades! — for Attempted Bloggery‘s Stephen Nadler to complete a Peter Arno quest that involved original Arno art, a New York City gallery, a now defunct humor magazine, and, of course, persistence. Read about it here. ____________________________________________________ Peter Arno’s A-Z Entry: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8,
Read more…The latest issue of The New Yorker (it’s a double, covering June 5th & June 12th) contains a debut cartoon by Maddy Dai. Here’s her website. ___________________________________________________________________________________ After a bunch of fun posts about the cartoonist, William Von Riegen, Stephen Nadler at Attempted Bloggery has focused on yet another New Yorker cartoonist whose name might not be familiar to many
Read morePaul Noth and Drew Dernavitch will be drawing at Princeton on April 21st. All the details here. [photo: Paul Noth on the left, Mr. Dernavitch on the right] Paul Noth’s website. Drew Dernavitch’s website. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Jane Mattimoe’s blog, A Case For Pencils continues with its impressive series of New Yorker cartoonists talking about their tools of the trade. This week
Read moreA very nice piece, “Ink-Slinger Profiles by Alex Jay: Gardner Rea” from The Stripper’s Guide. Gardner Rea‘s work appeared in The New Yorker from its very first issue all the way through 1965. [Mr. Rea pictured in 1914] _______________________________________________________________________ …and Attempted Bloggery continues its fascinating look at five issues worth of Peter Arno‘s work in College Humor.
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