Emily Flake*, Amy Hwang**, and Chris Weyant are the three finalists in the (gag***) “Gag Cartooning” division of the 2021 National Cartoonists Society Awards. In the running for the NCS’s “Cartoonist Of The Year” award are two New Yorker colleagues: Keith Knight, and Edward Sorel. And among the Advertising/Product Illustration award nominees is another New Yorker colleague, Ivan
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Next Week’s New Yorker Cover We haven’t seen an early released New Yorker cover for some time (they usually don’t appear until Monday morning). Here’s Eric Drooker’s for next week’s issue. Read more here. _________________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Liana Finck From The Comics Journal, May 26, 2022: “Liana Finck’s Skeptical Mythologizing” by Andrew Field. Ms.Finck began contributing to The New
Read moreThe third early release New Yorker cover in a month — surely a sign of the times. With the news on overdrive these days I again urge the magazine to consider running an online Daily Cover much as they run a Daily Cartoon and Daily Shouts. In next week’s cover, Eric Drooker recalls the iconic (c.1930) photo of Grand Central
Read moreWith this week being a big election moment and all, I was expecting the just published New Yorker cover would be political. And maybe it is in a strange way — maybe we need a calm moment in the storm. Still, I found myself looking very closely at cover artist Eric Drooker‘s bank of leafy trees thinking maybe I’d spot
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