Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Captions New Yorker Cartoons Well this might be a first: a candidate for President captioning New Yorker cartoons. Mr. Yang takes a shot in this brand new video. Cartoons, in order of appearance, are by: yours truly, Frank Cotham, Ben Schwartz, Liam Walsh, Tom Cheney, and Kaamran Hafeez. _____________________________________________________________________ A Case For Pencils Spotlights Rich
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New Yorker Cartoonists (And Cakes) At The Magazine’s Holiday Party
Here are a few scenes from last night’s merry New Yorker Holiday Party. A happy throng filled a giant room on the 33rd floor of 1 World Trade Center. All photos courtesy of Liza Donnelly, unless otherwise attributed. My thanks to cartoonists Liza Donnelly, Joe Dator, Felipe Galindo, and Jason Chatfield for their photos. Left: New Yorker editor, David Remnick
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Items of interest this mid-week: Two reminders of upcoming events. On January 29, the great illustrator Robert Andrew Parker (shown below), whose work has appeared numerous times in The New Yorker, will be featured at The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium. Details here. ________________________________________ On January 30th, Long-time cartoonist Mort Gerberg will be in conversation with The New Yorker‘s
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists Holiday Party
Decades ago, in the William Shawn era, New Yorker cartoonists celebrated the holidays in-house (specifically, in-department). They’d show up at the office and drink punch provided by the art editor Lee Lorenz and his assistant, Anne Hall. Cartoonists would sample rum balls brought in by their colleague, Henry Martin. During the Tina Brown years the holiday party went big time,
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