Cartoon god George Booth is the most recent cartoonist to talk about his tools of the trade on Jane Mattimoe’s wonderful blog, A Case For Pencils. Read the interview here. [left: a classic Booth collection from 1983]
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Panckeri Pencilled; More Gus Mager
Drew Panckeri is up next on Jane Mattimoe’s terrif blog, A Case For Pencils. Read all about Mr. Panckeri’s tools of the trade here. _____________________________________________________________________ From The Comics Journal, June 1, 2016, here’s “The Lost Sundays of Gus Mager 1904-1906”, Part 2 of Paul Tumey’s close look at the artist’s work.
Read moreGus Mager Gets His Due; Pat Byrnes Pencilled
From The Comics Journal, May 18, 2016, this lengthy informative piece by Paul Tumey, “The Screwball Comics of Gus Mager: Hippos, Monks and Sherlock Holmes” — Read it here. Ink Spill’s New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z entry for Gus Mager: Born, 1878, Newark, New Jersey. Died, July 17, 1956, Murrysville, Penn. New Yorker work: 5 cartoons, March – July of
Read moreRarely Seen Arno Inspired Play, “The New Yorkers” Coming to City Center in 2017; A New Case For Pencils Post
In what is surely the surprise of the day (for me), next year City Center will put on a limited run of the 1930 play The New Yorkers. The play, with music by Cole Porter as well as Jimmy Durante, was based on “a seed of an idea” [NYTs] by …Peter Arno. Below: sheet music cover art by Arno. Details
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