Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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Arnold Roth With Johnny Carson…Jack Ziegler With David Letterman…Bruce McCall With David Letterman Arnie Roth, who just turned 93, waaaay back in 1981 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. And here’s the great Jack Ziegler with David Letterman in June of 1983: …and Bruce McCall in one of his several appearances with David Letterman (December, 1982) The A-Z Spill
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Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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— Photo courtesy of Anne Hall Elser Sad news has come this way via Mike Lynch that the great cartoonist Bill Woodman passed away on Saturday. Between 1975 and 2003, Mr. Woodman published one hundred and
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