Danny Shanahan has a website; Media-League Softball: New York Times Magazine over The New Yorker

Long time New Yorker cartoonist, Danny Shanahan, now has a website  (currently in progress)…go visit!   The New York Times “6th Floor” has reported on its victory over The New Yorker this past week (“There’s No Crying in Media-League Softball,” June 28, 2012). Ink Spill asked The New Yorker’s softball co-coach (and cartoonist) Drew “Woodcut” Dernavich for his thoughts on

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New Yorker Cartoonists Exhibit Way Out West

   This promises to be an interesting exhibit (see the poster for all the pertinent information). According to the show’s promotional material: “Rejected works handpicked by each artist will be shown alongside originals that ran in the magazine.”  Keeping my fingers crossed that this exhibit makes its way east. The poster above features a Bob Eckstein drawing.  Also circulating online

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Review: “Every Tuesday”; R. Chast in San Fran; Liza Donnelly speaks in Geneva; Interview w/ Nick Downes

From Hollywood Soapbox, May 23, 2012, “Tribeca Review: ‘Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists’” From San Francisco Gate, May 23, 2012, “‘The Kugelmass Episode’ at  City Arts & Lectures” (scroll down for  R. Chast content)   From European Cartoon Center, May 23, 2012, “Women Cartoonists by Liza Donnelly in Genva”   From Humor Times, May 23, 2012,

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