Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; New York Comics And Picture-Story Symposium Goes Online Via Zoom; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist: Olivia de Recat; Blitt’s Screamin’ Kvetchbook

_________________________________________________________________ Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is today’s Daily Cartoonist.  See her Daily cartoon here, and visit her website here. Ms. Campbell began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017.   _________________________________________________________________ New York Comics And Picture Story Symposium Goes Online Via Zoom The Symposium, a treasure and a treat, has continued on online via Zoom. The next event is

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The Wednesday Watch: Playboy Will End Its Print Edition; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist

Playboy Will End Its Print Edition From WWD, March 18, 2020, “Playboy Magazine Ceases Print Edition After 66 Years” The magazine’s Spring 2020 issue will be its last print edition. An online edition will continue (the magazine says “special” issues may appear next year).  For many years, in the latter part of the Golden Age of Cartoons, as magazines that

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Interview Of Interest: Emma Hunsinger; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Conde Nast Employees Work Remotely

Interview Of Interest: Emma Hunsinger From Solrad, (undated, but posted 2020)  “Treating Myself to Gatorade and Gum: An Interview with Emma Hunsinger” Ms. Hunsinger began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017. Visit her website here.   ___________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Peter Kuper on keeping one’s distance. Mr. Kuper began contributing to The New Yorker in

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All New Yorker Cartoons Are New Yorker Drawings But Not All New Yorker Drawings Are New Yorker Cartoons; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s)

In a fun February 22nd 2020 post on The Daily Cartoonist celebrating the first appearance of James Thurber’s drawings in The New Yorker (shown above), the post’s author D.D. Degg wrote this: There seems to be some disagreement over whether the above drawings constitute cartoons. A New Yorker State of Mind, where the above screenshot comes from, calls them cartoons;

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