Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title I don’t have a good sense of where most of my drawings come from. Mostly, they just show up, and I put ’em down on cheap paper. The above drawing does have a small bit of a past — at least the caption does. My mother was a fan of Frank Sinatra. While
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Swann Catalog Posted Swann Galleries December Illustration catalog is now posted. You can look through here. The auction will take place on December 16th, but in the meantime, have fun looking at the work offered (I did). Among the originals this time round are works by Charles Addams, Lee Lorenz, Helen Hokinson, Warren Miller, Michael ffolkes, CEM (Charles E. Martin),
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A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: T-day The Cartoonists: Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Roz Chast & Emily Flake share a “Sketchbook”). No duos that we know of, and one newbie, Max Wittert, who is the 18th new cartoonist brought in to the
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The Best Part of Waking Up Is New Yorker(?) Coffee In Your Cup This product is new and news to me. I’m a Maxwell House person myself, but found this coffee of interest. Haven’t tried it, so cannot report on its aroma. I wonder if the coffee-makers have captured the essence of the magazine. The good news is that this
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