A visit to my favorite used bookstore this past weekend turned up this WWII era UK collection, I Couldn’t Help Laughing! (edited by D.B. Wyndham Lewis). This is the “new & enlarged” 1944 edition (cover by Nicolas Bentley). The original edition came out in ’41. As you can see by the list of contributors shown below right, there are
Read moreDavid Langdon’s “Langdon At Large” Was much fun to find the above scan of David Langdon’s 1958 collection, Langdon At Large awaiting in my inbox this morning, courtesy of Warren Bernard, the executive director of SPX (and author of the terrific, Cartoons For Victory). Mr. Bernard excels at digging up cartoon surprises. Until ten minutes ago I’d never seen the
Read moreFrom The Telegraph, December 7, 2011, “David Langdon“ — this obit. From Westfield Comics Blog, “Interview: Dean Mullaney and Jared Gardner on IDW’s Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and The Little King” From newyorker.com’s blog, The Book Bench, December 6, 2011, “An Artist’s War” — this post on Joe Farris’s new book
Read moreFrom The Guardian, November 22, 2011, “David Langdon obituary” — Mr. Langdon’s work appeared in The New Yorker from 1945 through 1973.
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