Chatfield Pencilled; From Dick Buchanan’s Files: Work by Gardner Rea; Splat! New Yorker Reveals Its Next Cover; Even More Cartoons; New Yorker Union Certified

Chatfield Pencilled Jason Chatfield is up next on A Case For Pencils, Jane Mattimoe’s wonderful blog wherein New Yorker cartoonists show us their tools of the trade.  Read it here! ______________________________________________________________________  From Dick Buchanan’s files via Mike Lynch: Gardner Rea Mike Lynch has posted another bevy of cartoons from Dick Buchanan’s Files.  This time it’s work from the underappreciated Gardner

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Victoria Roberts Pencilled; Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art; Seth’s Commencement Address; Philip Roth Jaywalking on West 79th St.

Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils returns with a look at Victoria Roberts’ tools of the trade. See it here! Ms. Roberts began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. _____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art This week Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery looks at items acquired at the MoCCA Fest.  Today it’s John Cuneo‘s Not Waving But Drawing. Read it here.

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Interview of Interest: Sam Gross; Cartoon Companion Rates the Latest New Yorker Cartoons; Lots More E. Simms Campbell on Attempted Bloggery; Jack Ziegler: Calmly Zany

Interview of Interest: Sam Gross Yesterday Jane Mattimoe gave us an audio snippet of her recent interview with the great Sam Gross.  Today we get the whole print interview right here. _________________________________________________________________ Cartoon Companion Rates the Latest New Yorker Cartoons The CC”s “Max” and “Simon” return with their up-close takes on each and every cartoon in the new issue (y’know,

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Liza Donnelly’s Drawings From Dubai; Audio of Interest: Sam Gross; Noth’s New Book

Liza Donnelly’s Drawings From Dubai Liza Donnelly just spent a week live-drawing in Dubai at the Global Education and Skills Forum for the presentation of the Teacher Skills Prize. Here are her graphic impressions of what she saw. ______________________________________________________________________ Audio of Interest: Sam Gross Courtesy of Jane Mattimoe (A Case For Pencils), here’s a short audio clip of the great

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