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.
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Washington Post’s Q&A with Liza Donnelly
“Tonight’s Thurber Prize: New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly Strikes Apt Chords with “Women on Men” (September 30, 2014)–The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna talks to Liza Donnelly. Further reading: From Media Bistro’s Galley Cat: “Debut Novelist John Kenney Wins Thurber Prize for American Humor”
Read moreJack Ziegler on Charles Barsotti
Jack Ziegler and Charles Barsotti made up the entire Kansas wing of the New Yorker until Charley passed away last night. I asked Jack if he’d care to share a few thoughts on Charley, and here is what he had to say: A friend of mine and I had dinner with Charley Barsotti and his wife Rae this past
Read moreVideo: Joe Dator Shows Us a Rejected New Yorker piece; On the Radio Today: Bob Mankoff & Jack Ziegler
From Dead Darlings (mentioned on Ink Spill earlier this month) this You Tube video of Joe Dator, who takes us through a two page spread rejected by The New Yorker. And… This morning
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