Cartoon god George Booth is the most recent cartoonist to talk about his tools of the trade on Jane Mattimoe’s wonderful blog, A Case For Pencils. Read the interview here. [left: a classic Booth collection from 1983]
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Peter Steiner: The Ink Spill Interview
I first met Peter Steiner in 1984 at an impromptu party thrown the night of The New Yorker’s annual anniversary bash (at the Pierre on the corner of 5th Avenue at 59th Street). Following the festivities in the hotel’s grand ballroom, a bunch of cartoonists made their way west to the other side of Central Park to a much smaller
Read moreOut Today! Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist
Finally! My thanks to Karen Green of Columbia University for last night’s wonderful send-off for Arno at Butler Library. And thanks too to Edward Sorel for co-piloting the program with me. A big thank you to all who attended, including those from my New Yorker family: Roxie Munro,
Read moreFave Photo of the day: Booth & Shanahan at The New Yorker; More Spills with Eckstein, and Chast
Two of the New Yorker’s very best cartoonists, George Booth and Danny Shanahan at the magazine’s offices today (photo courtesy of Liza Donnelly) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ …newyorker.com’s Culture Desk is featuring a slide show of Bob Eckstein’s graphic coverage of the Golden Globes. See it here. …looking forward to the fall publication of Daniel Menaker’s new book, The African
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