Video of Interest: From 1997, ABC’s Nightline Looks at the New Yorker’s Cartoonists; Sam Gross on Jack Ziegler; The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna on Jack Ziegler’s Pivotal Role at The New Yorker

Way way back in December 1997, ABC’s Nightline broadcast “Drawing Laughter: the Cartoonists of The New Yorker” devoting its entire half-hour time slot to New Yorker cartoons and especially, its cartoonists.  The video from ABC’s vault takes us back to the Tina Brown era, the beginning of Bob Mankoff‘s tenure as cartoon editor (he’d only been at the big desk

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Washington Post’s Q&A with Liza Donnelly

“Tonight’s Thurber Prize: New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly Strikes Apt Chords with “Women on Men” (September 30, 2014)–The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna talks to Liza Donnelly. Further reading: From Media Bistro’s Galley Cat: “Debut Novelist John Kenney Wins Thurber Prize for American Humor”    

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Liza Donnelly is a Thurber Prize Finalist

Women on Men (Narrative Library), the most recent book by Liza Donnelly, the long time New Yorker cartoonist, has been selected as one of three finalists for The Thurber Prize.  The other nominees are David Letterman & Bruce McCall for This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) and John Kenney for Truth in Advertising. The winner

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