Chatfield Celebrates Gerberg’s 90th Jason Chatfield’s latest “Artist Spotlight” falls upon his fellow cartoonist, Mort Gerberg, who will turn 90 (!) tomorrow, and in a month will celebrate the 56th anniversary of his debut in The New Yorker. Here’s Mr. Gerberg’s A-Z entry: Mort Gerberg Born, March 11, 1931, New York, NY. New Yorker work: April 10, 1965 – .
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Here’s the cover for the upcoming desert island cartoon collection, Send Help!, edited by New Yorker cartoonists, Jon Adams, and Ellis Rosen. It’s on the shelves November 9th. (full disclosure: this cartoonist is among the contributors) _________________________________________________________ Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Monday’s: Mick Stevens on a complicated sunny forecast. Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. Visit
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We’ll have to wait til November 9th for this one, now listed on its publisher’s website. Scant info…additional information will be posted when available. From Voracious/Little Brown, Send Help! A Collection Of Marooned Cartoons, edited by two New Yorker cartoonists, Ellis Rosen, and Jon Adams. _____________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Kim Warp, on taking back from the poor. Ms.
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Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,
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