Liza Donnelly was in the big apple the past few days promoting her newly released Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists. Both events were taped, with The Art Students League talk available to view now. Roxie Munro & Liza Donnelly At The Art Students League, March 24, 2022 — Above: Roxie Munro
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Interview Of Interest: Edward Sorel From “Person Place And Thing with Randy Cohen,” this 27 minute interview with the great Ed Sorel, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1990. Mr. Sorel talks Art Young, Graydon Carter, Lee Lorenz, Edward G. Robinson, and Barry Goldwater, among others. Ed Sorel will forever be remembered as the cover artist for Tina
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The NYTs On Barbara Shermund: “Overlooked No More” Hurray for Barbara Shermund! The paper of record has finally got around to noting her life and work. The first Barbara Shermund obit — at least as far as I’ve been able to discover — was the notice, above left, published September 9, 1978. I found it online years ago in
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Ukraine-centric The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Ed Steed takes care of the “spots” in this issue). The Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There’s one duo in the issue (that we know of): Liza Donnelly
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