Chatfield Pencilled; From Dick Buchanan’s Files: Work by Gardner Rea; Splat! New Yorker Reveals Its Next Cover; Even More Cartoons; New Yorker Union Certified

Chatfield Pencilled Jason Chatfield is up next on A Case For Pencils, Jane Mattimoe’s wonderful blog wherein New Yorker cartoonists show us their tools of the trade.  Read it here! ______________________________________________________________________  From Dick Buchanan’s files via Mike Lynch: Gardner Rea Mike Lynch has posted another bevy of cartoons from Dick Buchanan’s Files.  This time it’s work from the underappreciated Gardner

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Tilley Watch Online, The Week of July 1-6, 2018; Cartoon Companion Rates the Very Latest New Yorker Cartoons

The Daily cartoons were 100% Trump or Trumpian this week.  The contributing artists: John McNamee, Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley), Sofia Warren, David Sipress, and Peter Kuper. And over on this week’s Daily Shouts, the contributing New Yorker cartoonists were: Will McPhail and Liana Finck.  You can see all of the above and more by following this link. ___________________________________________________________ Cartoon

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The Wednesday Watch: Happy 96th, Dana Fradon!; Profile of Interest: George Booth; A Syd Hoff Selection; Hugette Martell in NY Review of Books; Chatfield Chats About Trump

Happy 96th Dana Fradon!  Very best birthday wishes to Mr. Fradon, our senior New Yorker cartoonist.  Above, a powerhouse quartet: three New Yorker cartoonists and their editor. Left to right: Charles Saxon, James Geraghty (the New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 – 1973), Dana Fradon, and Whitney Darrow, Jr.  Westport, September, 1982. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Geraghty Herndon). Mr. Fradon’s

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