Three Cartoon Collections I Never Heard Of..Til Now I know there are many stray cartoon collections out there I’ve never heard of — even after years and years of making it my business to know about such things. It’s always fun when one turns up. Today I became aware of three — highly unusual! Stranger still: they’re all linked together
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________________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest: Ed Steed In Frenchtown From The Frenchtown Bookshop website, “New Yorker Cartoonist Edward Steed, Forces Of Nature“. Mr. Steed will be at the bookstore January 23rd, from 6:30-7:30. — Above, left: Mr. Steed’s self-portrait; on the right, his first collection of cartoons. _______________________________________________________________ Adam Douglas Thompson Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
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Pub Day For At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker is out today, after eight years in the making, including thousands of zoom meetings (kidding about the thousands of zoom meetings. I think there were only 241). It’s published by the good folks at Clarkson Potter, who allowed the photographer, Alen
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Latest Arrival: Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund There’s nothing I like better than seeing a New Yorker artist given their due. The work of Barbara Shermund, a major contributor to the magazine from June 13, 1925 through September 16, 1944, had seemed to fade from the conversation over the
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