In the latest installment of The Cartoon Companion: Ed Steed’s fowl: chickens or ducks?…plus Dernavich’s refrigerator, Cotham’s stairway to heaven, and more. _______________________________________________________________________________ Tom Toro has been drawing a lot of Trumps lately. He talks about the experience on the Huffington Post: “New Yorker Cartoonist Explains Why Humor is the Heartbeat of Democracy”
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Emma Allen To Succeed New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff
In a memo to all New Yorker Cartoonists this afternoon, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick announced that Emma Allen, a New Yorker editor will succeed Bob Mankoff as cartoon editor in two months time. In part, the memo reads: The person I’ve chosen to be the next cartoon editor
Read moreBeing Eustace Tilley; Roger Angell Remembers James Stevenson; Oscar Time! Liza Donnelly Back on the Red Carpet Live Drawing the Oscars, Drooker’s Oscar Cover, Eckstein’s Oscar Wielding Eustace
Eustace Tilley is of course a fictional character — commonly referred to as The New Yorker‘s mascot. There is a suggested backstory to Tilley himself in Lee Lorenz’s Art of The New Yorker: 1925-1995; there are best guesses elsewhere as to why Rea Irvin (see below) decided to submit the cover to Harold Ross to adorn Ross’s inaugural
Read moreLee Lorenz On James Stevenson; Cartoon Companion Rates the Latest New Yorker Cartoons
“Postscript: James Stevenson” James Stevenson is remembered by the great cartoonist Lee Lorenz who, as The New Yorker‘s Art Editor guided the magazine’s Art Department (that included the cartoons and the covers) from 1973 through 1993, and then served as Cartoon Editor from 1993 through 1997. Mr. Lorenz was Mr. Stevenson’s editor from 1973 through 1993. More Stevenson: …from
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