From the Comics Journal continuing series Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist, this must read interview by Richard Gehr: “Lee Lorenz, Cartoonist, Editor, Writer, Jazzbo”
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Funny Business to be rebroadcast May 7th; Video: Chast’s Ant & The Grasshopper
According to its official website, Funny Business — An Inside Look at the Art of Cartooning, shown last night on New York’s PBS station WNET, will be rebroadcast this Saturday, May 7th, at 3:30 am. The film pays studio visits to a number of New Yorker cartoonists, including Frank Modell, Lee Lorenz (the former Art Editor/Cartoon Editor of The New
Read moreFifty Years Earlier
As a cartoonist it’s (mostly) all about what’s next; this may explain why I sometimes like to take a breather and think about what was. Still in a celebratory mode because of The New Yorker’s 86th anniversary, I went to my collection of anniversary issues and pulled out the issue from fifty years ago, dated February 18, 1961. Thought I’d
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