I first met Bill Woodman, like I met so many New Yorker cartoonists in the late 1970s, in the Grand Ballroom of the Pierre Hotel on 5th Avenue during an anniversary party for the magazine. Those February shindigs were always done in style (a post WWII style, to be honest). A long table of food was set up
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Cat Cartoons a-plenty in the Big New Yorker Book of Cats
Coming October 1st from Random House: The Big New Yorker Book of Cats ( you may remember that The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs was published almost exactly a year ago). As you’d expect, the book boasts a huge number of cat themed cartoons and covers. Here’s a list of the cartoonists represented: Charles Addams, Harry Bliss,
Read moreSlide show: Bruce Petty
Here’s a treat: a slideshow of 94 cartoons by Bruce Petty (once you’ve gone to the new page, scroll down to Mr. Petty’s name, and click). Petty’s work appeared in The New Yorker for a decade (1959-69). I’ve always (graphically) linked Mr. Petty’s work with Niculae Asciu and Dean Vietor’s — highly energetic lines, as close to animated cartoons
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