Frank Modell’s Brendan Gill; Tom Chitty Has A Question; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Christopher Weyant; More Steinberg; Today’s Daily Shouts By…Seth Fleishman

Frank Modell’s Brendan Gill I came away from a recent visit to my favorite (used) book store, Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York with the brochure handed out at Brendan Gill’s memorial back in 1998 (see the details of the tribute below). I’m indebted to one of my book store haunting friends, Mark Burns for digging the brochure out

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Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Elisabeth McNair; Surreal McCoy’s “Wolf Of Baghdad”At Shrewsbury Int’l Cartoon Festival; Today’s Daily Shouts By…Julia Wertz; Cooper Hewitt’s Steinberg’s Spot The Difference; Dick Buchanan’s Perry Barlow File

Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon Kids, parents, computers…by Elisabeth McNair.  Ms. McNair began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.  Visit her website here. ____________________________ Surreal McCoy’s “Wolf Of Baghdad” At Shrewsbury Int’l Cartoon Festival All the info here on the film and the festival. Ms. McCoy (Carol Isaacs) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014.  Visit her website here. _____________________

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Two Webbys For The New Yorker; An Addams Family Movie Art Book; Tonight At Word Bookstore: A Trio Of New Yorker Cartoonists!; Today’s Daily Shouts By…Ed Steed; Book Of Interest: John Donohue’s “All The Restaurants In New York”; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Avi Steinberg

Congrats to The New Yorker on their dual Webbys (“international awards honoring excellence on the Internet”). The People’s Voice Award is for “How To Write A New Yorker Cartoon Caption: Child Prodigy Edition”   Webby People’s Voice Award for Magazine: The New Yorker Webby People’s Voice Award for News & Magazines: The New Yorker Today app ___________________ An Addams Family

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