The Cover: It’s the Technology Issue, with a cover, by Pascal Campion, reflecting these strange times. When the cover first popped up on my screen I thought it was by Sempe: y’know, the large space, inhabited by a single person — viewed from above. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Sixteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons (Emily Flake has a “Comic Strip” on page
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Today’s Daily Cartoon…And Yesterday’s Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Victor Varnado on remember when. Mr. Varnado began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2019. Visit his website here. Yesterday’s Daily: Amy Hwang, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010, on schooling at home. Visit her website here. ______________________________________________________________________ From The Archives: The Paris Review (Humor Issue) Fall 1995.
Read moreVideo Of Interest: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell From CLTV, August 20, 2020, “Finding The Funny With New Yorker Cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell” — this hour long video with Ms. Campbell talking about “comedy and creativity.” Ms. Campbell began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017. Visit her website here. ____________________________________________________________________________ A Whole Lot Of Booth Info From Toonz, August
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Off The Spill’s Shelves: People, Books & Book People Here’s a really fun read, published in 1980. Short interviews with a ton of folks, as you see by the list (shown below) on the back cover. My initial interest in this book was that it included New Yorker contributors such as Renata Adler, John McPhee, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John
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