The Cover: You can read Francoise Mouly’s (The New Yorker art editor) very brief interview with Mr. Ware here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists in the issue (two contributed “Sketchpads”). A newbie: Millie von Platen, is the 17th new cartoonist added to the magazine’s stable this year, and the 70th new cartoonist brought aboard since Emma Allen
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___________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Groucho’s Hokinson Festival Here’s a fun post from Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery on Groucho Marx’s copy of The Hokinson Festival spotted in a photo. The Festival, published seven years after Ms. Hokinson’s death, is a great addition to any cartoon library. A bonus: it includes color plates of a few of her sixty-eight New Yorker covers.
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Video Of Interest With Emma Allen And Jeremy Nguyen The New Yorker cartoon editor, Emma Allen speaks, virtually, with cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen in this 8 minute video, “How To Draw A City” Mr. Nguyen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Visit his website here. Ms. Allen was appointed the magazine’s cartoon editor in the Spring of 2017. …and
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Book Of Interest: A User’s Guide To Democracy, Illustrated By Tom Toro Today is publication day for A User’s Guide To Democracy, by Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy, with illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro (he began contributing to the magazine a decade ago). Ordering info and more on the book and its authors here on the publisher’s site.
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The Cover: With this weird summer winding down, Barry Blitt’s opera singer cut-outs cover seems to fit right in. Read a Q&A with him here. The Cartoonists: Of note: Sarah Akinterinwa makes her New Yorker debut in the issue. She is the 12th newbie of this year and the 65th cartoonist brought in under Emma Allen’s cartoon editorship (begun
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