From The Comics Journal, January 16, 2013, “Jack Ziegler: The Pen and Paper of Middle America” — the latest installment in TCJ’s series, Know Your New Yorker Cartoonists. (thanks to Liam Walsh for the link) From GPB News, February 9, 2013, “For Rural Towns, Postal Service Cuts Could Mean A Loss of Identity” (Edward Koren content).
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The Algonquin
The holiday season reminds me of the Algonquin Hotel, and once reminded I only have to look across my desk to the snowglobe pictured above. It was given to me years ago by friends who stayed at the hotel for a day or two. I threw together the little scene above for Ink Spillers. The snowglobe sits atop
Read morePolitics reigns in New Yorker’s Cartoon Issue.
Out now: The 2012 New Yorker Cartoon Issue. This is the 15th year the Cartoon Issue has appeared. That first issue, dated December 15, 1997, featured a cover collage of cartoonists’ work, a fold out Arnold Newman photograph of forty-one of the magazine’s cartoonists and one of my all-time favorite Jack Ziegler cartoons (it appeared in the Comment section).
Read moreWard Sutton’s Davy Jones Tribute; Jack Ziegler’s First OK; Panel discussion with Flake, Dernavich and Katz
From Spin, “Ward Sutton’s Most Memorable Encounter With The Monkees’ Davy Jones” From newyorker.com, two items of interest: Bob Mankoff continues his series of My First OK. Last week it was Mick Stevens, this week it’s Jack Ziegler’s turn with the post “The Journey of a Thousand Cartoons”. And, on March 5th, The New Yorker’s Editor, David Remnick
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