Video Of Interest: Emma Allen With Amy Kurzweil “How To Draw Literary Cartoons” is the latest in a series of newyorker.com videos with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (above left) speaking with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Amy Kurzweil (above right) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. _________________________________________________________________ From The Dept
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Coming in June of this year from the terrif R.O. Blechman, One The One Hand/On The Other Hand: The Art & Graphic Stories Of R.O. Blechman/The Writing Of R.O. Blechman Published & Unpublished (Fantagraphics). Read far more here. Here’s Mr. Blechman’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: R.O. Blechman (photo: Hillsdale, NY, 2017. photo by Elwood Smith ). Born, New
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Video Of Interest: Emma Allen & Lars Kenseth The latest video in a series with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen zooming with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time it’s Lars Kenseth. Watch the video here (with a cameo appearance by Peter Arno’s classic March 1, 1941 New Yorker drawing, “Well, back to the old drawing board.”). Visit
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Barry Blitt, with a comment on the exiting of a President. I couldn’t help but think of this classic Charles Addams drawing from the issue of August 28, 1948. Here’s a short Q&A with Mr. Blitt about
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