Danny Shanahan Pencilled Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils spotlights one of the greatest contemporary New Yorker cartoonists, Danny Shanahan. See it here! Below: Mr. Shanahan’s work area. _______________________________________________________________________________ Cartoon Companion’s Harry Bliss Interview The latest Cartoon Companion turned up early this week with a new look and a very fun read: an interview with Harry Bliss (it’s a two-parter…this
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Color Work From Some Cartoon Greats; Audio: George Booth Talks Tools of the Trade
From Mike Lynch’s site, courtesy of Dick Buchanan, here’s a fun post of some color cartoon work from a variety of magazines. Included, among others, are New Yorker artists, William Steig, Garrett Price, Stan Hunt, William Von Riegen, Gahan Wilson, and Robert Day. See them all here! _____________________________________________________________________________ Jane Mattimoe has posted two short audio clips of the great
Read moreJohn Donohue on Drawing Disappearing Eateries; Julia Wertz is Pencilled; The Tilley Watch: The New New Yorker Masthead
From newyorker.com, May 23, 2017, ““Drawing the Vanishing Restaurants of New York” — this post by John Donohue, who has been tirelessly attempting to draw all the restaurants in New York. _________________________________________________________________________________ Next up on Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils blog is Julia Wertz, whose new book, Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional, Illustrated History of New York City will
Read moreA Rea Irvin Exhibit Recalled; Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated; Ali Fitzgerald Pencilled
What fun: my three favorite New Yorker cartoon-related sites are present and accounted for today. More New Yorker art history from Attempted Bloggery, which has unearthed yet another New York Times piece — this time about the spectacular Rea Irvin, who left his fingerprints all over the magazine (and they’re still all over it). I was lucky enough
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