Marisa Acocella’s Animation Marisa Acocella’s animated “Mission Control” is up on Youtube. See it here. Ms. Acocella began contributing to the New Yorker in 1998. Her most recent book was Ann Tenna. _________________________________________________________________ Blog Post of Interest: Captionless Cartoons Thanks to Dick Buchanan by way of Mike Lynch’s blog we can see a sampling of non-New Yorker captionless cartoons from
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Cartoon Companion Rates the Latest New Yorker Cartoons; E. Simms Campbell Fest Rolls on at Attempted Bloggery; A Thurber Original On Ebay Offered For $20,000.00
The Cartoon Companion‘s “Max” and “Simon” point their critical spotlight on the cartoons in the latest New Yorker (the issue of February 26, 2018). Read it here! ____________________________________________________________________ E. Simms Campbell Fest Rolls On at Attempted Bloggery Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery continues to highlight work by the prolific cartoonist, E. Simms Campbell. See it here. For more on Mr. Campbell,
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E. Simms Campbell, a somewhat obscure New Yorker cartoonist, better known for his work elsewhere (Playboy, and more importantly, Esquire. He created that magazine’s mascot, Esky) will be the next focus (ala Syd Hoff) of Stephen Nadler’s blog. The above scans of Mr. Campbell’s work are all from Chris Wheeler’s wonderful blog. Here’s Mr. Nadler on Mr. Campbell: Cartoonist E.
Read moreThe Spill Talks Mirror Balls and Tracking Porcupines with Seth Fleishman
I took notice when Seth Fleishman’s first cartoon, uniformed cows standing over a table, appeared in the New Yorker in the issue of April 4, 2016 (it appears below). Sometimes a new cartoonist’s work (the drawing itself and/or the caption) will appear slightly awkward (my first New Yorker drawing fits both those categories), but Mr. Fleishman’s work seemed like it
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