Marisa Acocella’s Animation Marisa Acocella’s animated “Mission Control” is up on Youtube. See it here. Ms. Acocella began contributing to the New Yorker in 1998. Her most recent book was Ann Tenna. _________________________________________________________________ Blog Post of Interest: Captionless Cartoons Thanks to Dick Buchanan by way of Mike Lynch’s blog we can see a sampling of non-New Yorker captionless cartoons from
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Tilley Watch Online; Blog of Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind; Even More Hoff on Attempted Bloggery; Cartoon Cliches (3 parts)
Not so unusual: mostly a Trump week on the Daily, which leads me to note this online query that popped up recently. Four out of five of the week’s Daily cartoons feature Mr. Trump, while the fifth is inseparable from him. The Daily cartoonists this week: David Sipress, Brendan Loper, Lars Kenseth, Ellis Rosen, and Peter Kuper. All of these
Read moreVintage Steig; A Richard Decker Self Portrait & One More Kovarsky!
Vintage Steig From Mike Lynch’s blog, courtesy of Dick Buchanan’s treasure trove of cartoon art, “William Steig Gag Cartoons 1946 – 1965” — see them all here. (above: from Look magazine, February 17, 1959). _____________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Self Portrait and One More Kovarsky! And speaking of Dick Buchanan, an interesting tear sheet containing a Richard Decker self portrait is
Read moreFave Book Find of the Week: Frueh On The Theatre: 1906 – 1962; Sam Marlow Pencilled; New Yorker Cartoonists in Life & Judge; Signed By The Cartoonist; Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker!
Here’s a wonderful collection of the late great Al Frueh’s theater work for The New Yorker and elsewhere. The New York Times had Al Hirschfeld, The New Yorker had Al Frueh. Mr. Frueh’s New Yorker colleague, Brendan Gill provides an informative and insightful intro. For more on Mr. Frueh, here’s a Spill piece about him, “The First New Yorker Cartoon”
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