Video Of Interest: The “Sesame Street” Edition Of The New Yorker Caption Contest; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist

Video Of Interest: The “Sesame Street” Edition of The New Yorker Caption Contest Here’s 7 1/2 minutes of fun: several of Sesame Street’s beloved characters give The New Yorker‘s caption contest a go. Cartoons shown in order of their appearance are by: David Borchart, Joe Dator, Tom Cheney, Ellis Rosen, Harry Bliss, Mick Stevens, Amy Hwang, P.C. Vey, and yours

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The Wednesday Watch: Meet The Artist (1943): Rea Irvin; Event Of Interest: Jeremy Nguyen; A Case For Pencils Spotlights Robert Leighton’s Tools Of The Trade; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Meet The Artist (1943): Rea Irvin The last in a series of self portraits of New Yorker artists included in the Meet The Artist catalog published by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in 1943. Here’s Mr. Irvin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Rea Irvin  *Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for

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At The Miami Book Fair Tomorrow: Liana Finck & Bob Eckstein; Meet The Artist (1943): Alajalov; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

At The Miami Book Fair Tomorrow: Liana Finck & Bob Eckstein Catch Liana Finck and Bob Eckstein in a joint appearance tomorrow morning at Miami Dade College.  Here’s the info! Above: Ms. Finck’s latest book and Mr. Eckstein’s.* Liana Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013.  Visit her website here. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker

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