Another podcast from The Virtual Memories Show and this time around the subject is Richard Gehr, the author of I Only Read It For the Cartoons, a brand new collection of interviews with a number of New Yorker cartoonists, including Victoria Roberts, Arnie Levin, Jack Ziegler, Bob Mankoff, Lee Lorenz, and George Booth.
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Book of Interest: Gehr’s I Only Read It For The Cartoons
Out today is Richard Gehr’s I Only Read It for the Cartoons (New Harvest), a collection of interviews with the following: Lee Lorenz, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, George Booth, Edward Koren, Charles Barsotti, Arnie Levin, Victoria Roberts, Gahan Wilson, Jack Ziegler, Zach Kanin, and Bob Mankoff. A wonderful addition to any cartoon library.
Read moreFave Photo of the Day: George Booth at The New Yorker
Liza Donnelly took this great photo of George Booth and Liam Walsh as they sat in the Cartoonists Lounge at The New Yorker today. A framed Charles Addams print lurks in the background.
Read moreCharles Barsotti: 1933 – 2014
Terribly sad news has just arrived here: the great New Yorker cartoonist, Charles Barsotti has passed away at his home in Kansas City. Mr. Barsotti, whose work was often mentioned in the same breath as Otto Soglow’s and James Thurber’s because of his spare melodic ink line, was a contributor to The New Yorker since 1962, and had been
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