The Sam Gross Cartoon Pad Interview New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw’s Cartoon Pad podcast (appearing every other week) is back. This week’s guest is the one-and-only Sam Gross. Mr. Gross talks about Charles Addams, Peter Porges, and Roz Chast, among others. Listen to it here. Sam Gross’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Sam Gross Born
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Alan Dunn’s New Yorker War Cartoons Cover Alan Dunn might be best remembered for his signature densely styled charcoal and grease pencil drawings that appeared for nearly a half-century in the New Yorker, from 1926 through 1974. Or he might be remembered as the most prolific New Yorker artist with the most published cartoons until William Steig overtook him
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Podcast Of Interest: Liza Donnelly From Drawing Inspiration, April 5, 2021, this hour plus podcast featuring Ms. Donnelly. Here’s Donnelly’s Spill A-Z entry: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 – Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus, 2005). Edited: Sex & Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy
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An Addams Album Cover It never ceases to amaze what pops up online. Yesterday it was this 1957 Dean Gitter album with Charles Addams cover art. _____________________________________________________________________ Harold Ross On Gluyas Williams I opened a bound volume of The Atlantic Monthly the other day wanting to re-read Charles Morton’s three part article that charts his brief “try for The New
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