Fave Stand-Up Photos Of The Day: Chatfield, Campbell, Varnado, Flake We’re used to seeing photos of cartoonists at their drawing boards, hovering over their work. But here are some photos taken last night of four New Yorker cartoonists (mostly) not sitting down, but standing up, doing stand-up, on stage, in front of their projected drawings. The occasion: “Funny On Paper;
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Latest ToonStack Posted ToonStack is where you’ll find a weekly gathering of cartoons on a theme by (mostly) New Yorker cartoonists. This week it’s “Into The Thick Of It” (cartoons, according to this week’s editor & contributor, Shelby Lorman, about “The Wild”)… contributors include Ellis Rosen, Hilary Campbell, Sofia Warren, Jason Chatfield, Amy Kurzweil, and Kendra Allenby. __________________________________________________________ Sipress Memoir
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A Richard Taylor “Rough” On Ebay Here’s something you don’t see very often: a pencil sketch…i.e., a “rough” drawing by the late great Richard Taylor. I can’t remember ever seeing one of his roughs up for grabs before. Mr. Taylor had perhaps the most out-there style of the golden age New Yorker artists (those saucer-shaped eyes!). For what it’s worth,
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The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon With the big day upon us, it’s time to dust off the above drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. I’m admittedly more of a baseball fan than a football fan; I post this drawing because it reminds me somehow of my late father-in-law who loved the game. ________________________________________________________________________
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