An Arno dissected; McNamee’s Case For Pencils

Attempted Bloggery digs into this Peter Arno drawing published in The New Yorker June 3, 1939.   ______________________________________________________         Jane Mattimoe’s  blog, A Case For Pencils adds John McNamee to the very long list of New Yorker  cartoonists letting us take a look at their tools of the trade.  Link here.

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Blitt and Kuper on Society of Illustrators Panel; Gil Roth Roth Interviews Glen Baxter; Another Look at Abner Dean; Felipe Galindo In Conference on Political Satire in Latin America; A Case For Pencils’ Pencils

    Last Minute Notice! “Can Art Affect Social Change?”  Barry Blitt and Peter Kuper, among others, will discuss tonight at The Society of Illustrators.  Details here ____________________________________________________________________ Check out Gil Roth’s wonderful interview with Glen Baxter on Mr. Roth’s Virtual Memories podcast here. (Mr. Baxter talks about coming to The New Yorker in the Robert Gottlieb era). While on

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Lee Lorenz in Conversation with Edward Sorel; Kuper Pencilled & Panelled

                        Two heavy hitters, Lee Lorenz and Edward Sorel will share a stage on September 26th for an event billed “Drawing Sides: A Timely Conversation on Political Cartoons”   Details here.     _____________________________________________________________________________________ Peter Kuper joins a very long list of New Yorker artists who’ve told us about their

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