Shanahan & Donnelly’s Online Cartoon Collection; Joe Farris Exhibition; Victoria Roberts Draws at NYC’s Strand Bookstore; Bruce Kaplan’s new show; Chast & Popeye; More Steinberg

  From The Huffington Post, December 21, 2012,  this online only collection of cartoons by Danny Shanahan and Liza Donnelly for Moms Clean Air Force.   From CTpost. com, December 18, 2012, “New Yorker artist’s work on view in Bethel” –This post on long time New Yorker contributor, Joe Farris     From the blog, East Village, December 19, 2012,

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Steinberg reviewed by Maslin, Mankoff, and Dumas; from the Ink Spill archive “On a Bench with Steinberg”

  Janet Maslin (no relation) reviews Deirdre Bair’s  Saul Steinberg: A Biography  in today’s New York Times: “No Reading Between the Lines”   In his weekly blog post, The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff looks at and shows us some of Steinberg’s work: “Saul Steinberg, Gag Man”   A New Yorker cartoonist, Jerry Dumas, writing for the Greenwich Time, December

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NYTs & New Yorker weigh in on Steinberg biography

From The New York Times Book Review, November 25, 2012), this review by Deborah Soloman of Deirdre Bair’s Saul Steinberg: A Biography (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)   And The New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl looks at Bair’s biography in this week’s issue (December 3, 2012).  The full review is only available online to subscribers.  

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