Back in 1980, I was booted out of my apartment on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village (see my 11th Street downstair’s neighbor, Donald Barthelme’s December 4, 1978 Talk Of The Town piece about the building’s landlord — I’m one-half of trembling “…young cohabiting couple…” he mentions). Needing a break from Manhattan I took up an offer from an illustrator
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The National Cartoonists Society Festival, Online & Free To All Usually an invitation-only formal event held in a convention center, this year’s NCS Festival will be online and open to all. Live streaming begins Saturday morning at 10am (est), September 12th. Here’s the schedule. Browsing the event schedule and list of nominees I noticed these New Yorker folks mentioned: Jason
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The Cover: Nice to be back to the weekly…those double issue weeks seems endless. So fun to be greeted by Wayne Thiebaud’s ice cream cone cover when the digital issue filled-in on the screen. Read a Q&A with the artist here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Fifteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons. Generally speaking, more than half are placed well on the page
Read moreBeginning today and continuing through July 23 you’ll be able to stream (for ten bucks. Cheap!) the terrif documentary film, Stevenson: Lost & Found, directed by Sally Williams. All the info here. Last year there was a special screening in Brooklyn for New Yorker cartoonists — a splendid time was had by all (and it was an opportunity for a
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