Article And Event Of Interest: Ken Krimstein’s “Three Escapes Of Hannah Arendt”

Two items of interest surrounding Ken Krimstein‘s terrific graphic biography, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018). First, this article in The Chicago Reader, “The Escape Artist” (it begins on page 21). And… tonight at NYC’s famed Strand Bookstore, Mr. Krimstein will take part in Pen Out Loud: Visual Disobedience. Details here.  Mr. Krimstein began contributing cartoons to

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New Yorker Cartoons Golden Age Editor; Roz Chast in San Francisco; More Spills with Nguyen, Rosen, Eckstein, Flake, Finck, Donnelly and Arno

        Rounding out this historic week for New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists as we say “Goodbye” to Bob Mankoff and “Hello” to Emma Allen is an article from the early 1970s as another transition was about to take place: long-time New Yorker Art Editor, James Geraghty  was beginning to think retirement, but his successor was not yet

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Q&A of Interest: Bob Eckstein

From Book Culture, this Q&A with New York Times bestselling author, Bob Eckstein. Mr. Eckstein will be at Book Culture on December 6th signing and speaking about his new book, Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores. Link here to Bob Eckstein’s website. Below, an Eckstein New Yorker cartoon:

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