Interview Of Interest: Arnie Levin (Pt.2); Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Barry Blitt; Daily Shouts By Viti, Ostow

Interview Of Interest: Arnie Levin (Pt.2) Jane Mattimoe has posted the second part of her terrific interview with Arnie Levin on her Case For Pencils blog. Mr. Levin began contributing cartoons and covers to The New Yorker in 1974. Read the interview here. _________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon Barry Blitt ponders the pronunciation of Buttigieg. Mr. Blitt has contributed to The

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Interview Of Interest: Arnie Levin; Celebration Of Interest At The Society Of Illustrators: The Book Of Weirdo; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: J.A.K.

Interview Of Interest: Arnie Levin Here’s a terrific interview with the one-and-only Arnie Levin on Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencil’s blog. This is the perfect opportunity to post my all-time favorite Arnie Levin drawing. It appeared in The New Yorker‘s October 5th, 1998 issue. Mr. Levin began contributing to The New Yorker in 1974. See some of his New Yorker

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An Early-Release Blitt Cover; The Latest Case For Pencils Spotlights Karl Stevens; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Brendan Loper

An Early-Release Blitt Cover The New Yorker sometimes gets the itch to early-release a cover (under normal circumstances we usually don’t see the next cover til the wee hours of Monday morn). Here’s the latest example of a cover that just couldn’t wait (it’s by Barry Blitt). Read about it here. _________________________________ Case For Pencils Spotlights Karl Stevens Jane Mattimoe’s

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Frank Modell’s Brendan Gill; Tom Chitty Has A Question; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Christopher Weyant; More Steinberg; Today’s Daily Shouts By…Seth Fleishman

Frank Modell’s Brendan Gill I came away from a recent visit to my favorite (used) book store, Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York with the brochure handed out at Brendan Gill’s memorial back in 1998 (see the details of the tribute below). I’m indebted to one of my book store haunting friends, Mark Burns for digging the brochure out

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