The National Cartoonists Society Festival, Online & Free To All Usually an invitation-only formal event held in a convention center, this year’s NCS Festival will be online and open to all. Live streaming begins Saturday morning at 10am (est), September 12th. Here’s the schedule. Browsing the event schedule and list of nominees I noticed these New Yorker folks mentioned: Jason
Read moreInterview Of Interest: Emma Hunsinger From Solrad, (undated, but posted 2020) “Treating Myself to Gatorade and Gum: An Interview with Emma Hunsinger” Ms. Hunsinger began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017. Visit her website here. ___________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Peter Kuper on keeping one’s distance. Mr. Kuper began contributing to The New Yorker in
Read moreDavid Langdon’s “Langdon At Large” Was much fun to find the above scan of David Langdon’s 1958 collection, Langdon At Large awaiting in my inbox this morning, courtesy of Warren Bernard, the executive director of SPX (and author of the terrific, Cartoons For Victory). Mr. Bernard excels at digging up cartoon surprises. Until ten minutes ago I’d never seen the
Read moreDecades ago, in the William Shawn era, New Yorker cartoonists celebrated the holidays in-house (specifically, in-department). They’d show up at the office and drink punch provided by the art editor Lee Lorenz and his assistant, Anne Hall. Cartoonists would sample rum balls brought in by their colleague, Henry Martin. During the Tina Brown years the holiday party went big time,
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