Jerry Dumas Profiled; Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Returns; Gerberg Talks Cartoons

From The Comics Journal, January 6, 2017, “Jerry Dumas, Cartoonist and Poet” — Mr. Dumas, who died this past November, is profiled by a comics writer, R.C. Harvey. Ink Spill’s notice of Jerry Dumas’s passing. ________________________________________________________________ Peter Steiner, author of the classic New Yorker cartoon, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”  has a new post on his Hopeless

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Jerry Dumas: 1930 – 2016

    Detroit native, Jerry Dumas, who began contributing spot drawings and cartoons to The New Yorker in 1959, has died at age 86 according to The National Cartoonists Society (the NCS). Mr. Dumas’s cartoons for the New Yorker were few but plentiful.  Not a one of them were single panel; all were spreads or multi-panel. The snippet above is

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Exhibit of Interest with Jerry Dumas

  An exhibit of cartoon art in Wilton, Connecticut includes work by New Yorker cartoonist Jerry Dumas. The exhibit also includes work by Chance Browne, Brian Walker, Greg Walker, Mary Anne Case, Bob Englehart, Dick Hodgins, Bill Janocha, Sean Kelly, Maria Scrivan, and Rick Stromoski.  Above is Mr. Dumas’s National Cartoonists Society profile, and below is his Ink Spill “New

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Steinberg reviewed by Maslin, Mankoff, and Dumas; from the Ink Spill archive “On a Bench with Steinberg”

  Janet Maslin (no relation) reviews Deirdre Bair’s  Saul Steinberg: A Biography  in today’s New York Times: “No Reading Between the Lines”   In his weekly blog post, The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff looks at and shows us some of Steinberg’s work: “Saul Steinberg, Gag Man”   A New Yorker cartoonist, Jerry Dumas, writing for the Greenwich Time, December

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