Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Peter Kuper on Trump’s defense. Mr. Kuper has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2011. Visit his website here. ____________________________________________________________________ Blitt’s Kvetchbook Barry Blitt’s latest: “A 2020 Guide To Shadow Puppetry” Mr. Blitt began contributing to The New Yorker in 1994. Visit his website here. ___________________________________________________________________ Finck’s Dear Pepper The latest entry from Liana
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Video Of Interest: Dem Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Captions New Yorker Cartoons; A Case For Pencils Spotlights Rich Sparks; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s)
Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Captions New Yorker Cartoons Well this might be a first: a candidate for President captioning New Yorker cartoons. Mr. Yang takes a shot in this brand new video. Cartoons, in order of appearance, are by: yours truly, Frank Cotham, Ben Schwartz, Liam Walsh, Tom Cheney, and Kaamran Hafeez. _____________________________________________________________________ A Case For Pencils Spotlights Rich
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Meet The Artist (1943): Rea Irvin; Event Of Interest: Jeremy Nguyen; A Case For Pencils Spotlights Robert Leighton’s Tools Of The Trade; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Meet The Artist (1943): Rea Irvin The last in a series of self portraits of New Yorker artists included in the Meet The Artist catalog published by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in 1943. Here’s Mr. Irvin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Rea Irvin *Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for
Read more“The Table In Mr. Ross’s Office Where We Used To Sit To Work On Pictures”; Book Of Interest: Alay-Oop By William Gropper; A Case For Pencils On Maddie Dai’s Tools Of The Trade; Daily Shouts & Daily Cartoon Cartoonists; Meet The Artist (1943): Dorothy McKay
“The Table Where We Used To Sit To Work On Pictures” A photo I’ve seen before on the web, but never with the note attached you see above. The letter, signed “Jim” was written by the then art editor James Geraghty.* The “Gardner” it’s addressed to was likely Gardner Rea, one of the magazine’s artists. There’s another possibility: the “Gardner”
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