A Reminder: Must-See Norman Rockwell Museum Zoom Panel at 5:30 today with New Yorker contributors Liza Donnelly, Roxie Munro, Marc Rosenthal, and famed illustrator Elwood Smith. All the info here, including bios. ________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon From Elisabeth McNair, it’s an uphill struggle, but the mail must go on. Ms. McNair began contributing to in 2018.
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The Cover: Gayle Kabaker’s lone surfer seems to hit the right mood as we close in on Labor Day (the unofficial end of Summer?). Read a brief Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: There are two duos, one of them new to the magazine: Julia Leigh & Phillip Day. Sophie Lucido Johnson & Sammi Skolmoski, the other duo made their
Read moreCatching up on the week’s Daily Cartoons… Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: Keith Knight on not watching the Mets. Mr. Knight began contributing to The New Yorker in December of last year. Visit his website here. …Yesterday’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: Teresa Burns Parkhurst, on Disney’s re-opening. Ms. Parkhurst began contributing to The New Yorker in October 2017. See her
Read moreThe American Bystander’s Michael Gerber Wants To Know Michael Gerber, the fellow behind the wonderful American Bystander is asking if anyone out there knows when the first cartoon caption contest began. Mr. Gerber passed along the one shown below from The Yale Record (I’ve been told it’s from 1918, but I see the artist dated it 1921). So…does
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