Book of Interest: Punch Cartoons in Color

  Coming in October, The Best of Punch Cartoons in Colour. From the publisher’s description: Punch‘s move into color illustrations early in the 20th century is now all but unknown. The magnificent results are shown in this collection with hundreds of stunning cartoons from the 1920 through 1992. Showcased here are exquisite illustrations from E. H. Shepard, Art Deco masterpieces from Fougasse, and the eccentrically whimsical creations

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Punched

                      I’ve had my share of rejection letters from magazine and book publishers. My absolute favorite came from the now defunct magazine, Punch, back in June of 1978. At that time I was reaching out to just about every publication I could find that ran cartoons (UFOlogy and Medical Economics

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Librarians tour New Yorker’s library; S.J. Perelman’s Steinberg Artifacts

Librarians tour New Yorker’s Library: From The Desk Set, April 14, 2011,  this piece, “The New Yorker Library (aka the best place on earth).” In the above photo from the post: a glimpse of William Hamilton’s, J.B. Handelsman’s and Alice Harvey’s  scrapbooks. S.J. Perelman’s Steinberg Artifacts: Yesterday afternoon while re-reading Prudence Crowther’s Introduction to her  book, Don’t Tread on Me;

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