Peter Steiner Pencilled; Jeremy Nguyen Profiled

Peter Steiner, who brought us this classic New Yorker cartoon, tells us about his tools of the trade on Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils. Read it here! Link to Peter Steiner’s website.   ________________________________________________________________   Jeremy Nguyen, whose first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker this past February, is the subject of this brief profile in Bedford + Bowery.

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Helen Hokinson on A Case For Pencils; A “New” Cartoonist from 1999; Swann Galleries New Yorker Cartoon Offerings

Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils post features the late very great Helen Hokinson. Take a look! Ms. Hokinson’s entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Helen Hokinson (above) Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection:

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John Klossner Pencilled; Peter Kuper’s Thoughts on Trump & Mexico

John Klossner joins the now lengthy list of New Yorker cartoonists spotlighted on Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils. Check it out! Above: Mr. Klossner’s drawing board ___________________________________________________________________________________________ From Design Arts Daily, January 18, 2017,  Peter Kuper‘s thoughts on Trump and Mexico. See it here: “Oaxaca Journal, V. 16”  

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