From Bob Eckstein’s Facebook post, this photo of he and Chris Ware at the Chicago Cultural Center’s film premiere of Hairy Who. (photo by Meg Handler Photography) ______________________________________________________________________________ From The Providence Journal, February 8, 2015, “RISD exhibit: Album covers were just another canvas for artists” — this story about a current exhibition of album
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Regan Arts to Publish Maslin Peter Arno Biography, Mad At Something
I’m pleased to announce that Mad At Something, my biography of the late and very great New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno will be published by Regan Arts. Arno is one of the pillars of The New Yorker‘s earliest days, a group that includes Harold Ross, E.B. White, Katharine White, and James Thurber. Ross, the magazine’s founder and first
Read moreAuction of Interest: Swann Offers Numerous New Yorker Cartoons; Covers Calendar Noted; Video: Mankoff on Science of Humor
Swann’s upcoming auction on January 22nd is chock full of New Yorker cartoons, with work by a number of the magazine’s giants. Cartoons on the block by Steinberg, Mischa Richter, Barbara Shermund, William Steig, Richard Taylor, Edward Sorel, Victoria Roberts, Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson, Rea Irvin, and Peter Arno. Below: a beautiful early Steig included in the auction. Link here
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists Draw Frogs, a Crocodile and a Dog — But Mostly Frogs
Our good friend over at Attempted Bloggery shows us what happens when you ask a bunch of cartoonists at a book event to draw frogs (sometimes you get a crocodile — sometimes you get a dog).
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