Just a few days after a gathering of New Yorker cartoonists in Brooklyn (for the Not Ok exhibit) there was another gathering — this one last night at 1 World Trade Center. Conde Nast, The New Yorker’s parent company hosted at get-together to introduce its new Cartoon Bank team to the artists. In the photo above from left to right:
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George Booth At The Society of Illustrators; Columbia University Panel with Emily Flake, Tom Toro, Robert Sikoryak, and Emma Allen
“Mister Hiucappi believes animals should be kept out-of-doors all year round.” A Must: “An Evening With George Booth” at The Society of Illustrators, November 8th. All the info here. Here’s Mr. Booth’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: George Booth (photo above taken in NYC 2016, courtesy of Liza Donnelly) Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. NYer work: 1969 –
Read moreCartoon Companion’s Amy Hwang Interview (Pt.1); Columbia University Libraries’ “Comics In the Curriculum”; The Tilley Watch:The New Yorker Festival
Cartoon Companion’s Amy Hwang Interview (Pt.1) Cartoon Companion has expanded its features, offering glimpses of rough drawings and interviews with New Yorker cartoonists. Here’s the latest with Amy Hwang, who began contributing to the magazine in November of 2010. Link here to her website. ___________________________________________________________________ Columbia Universities Libraries’ “Comics in the Curriculum” Karen Green, over at Columbia University, has been
Read moreProfile of Interest: New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Emma Allen; Karasik on Kirby; Chast’s New Book
From Artsy, August 28, 2017, “Meet the Young Woman Deciding the Future of The New Yorker Cartoon”— this enlightening piece on Emma Allen, the magazine’s current Cartoon Editor. ______________________________________________________________________ Paul Karasik, whose How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels (co-authored with Mark Newgarden) is coming out this Fall, has contributed a piece to Kirby 100:
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