The NYTs on The New Yorker’s Covers; Liana Finck’s New Advice Column

From The New York Times, September 28, 2014, “New Yorker’s Magazine Covers Shift From Polite to Provocative” — the Grey Lady notices the magazine’s bent for topical covers.               _________________________________________________________________________________________________   From The Lilith Blog, “Introducing ‘Excuse Me’ Mondays” — a graphic advice column from Liana Finck.

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David Remnick returns to Late Night with Live Cartoons

    New Yorker editor David Remnick made a return appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, witnessing then commenting on a handful of the magazine’s cartoons brought to life. The featured cartoons by: Christopher Weyant, Harry Bliss, Emily Flake, Zachary Kanin, and the late Charles Barsotti. Link here to see the piece. And if you want to see the

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Edward Sorel a Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame Inductee; Mankoff in the Hamptons; Chast on Rose w/ David Remnick

The great illustrator, Edward Sorel is a Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame inductee.  Read about it here on the SOI site.               And… It’s an unusual year, with three New York Times best selling New Yorker cartoonist books out there: Mimi Pond’s graphic memoir, Roz Chast’s graphic memoir  and Bob Mankoff’s memoir. Bob

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David Remnick on Charles Barsotti; The Daily Cartoon handed off to…

  This week’s New Yorker (issue dated June 30, 2014) contains a Postscript written by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick.  The piece, spread across the magazine’s gutter, includes four Barsotti drawings.  Of Barsotti’s work, Remnick writes (in part):   In his peculiarly enchanted kingdom, any being or object was capable of speech and wit: there were talking noodles, boxes, fruit,

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