Three Cartoon Collections I Never Heard Of..Til Now I know there are many stray cartoon collections out there I’ve never heard of — even after years and years of making it my business to know about such things. It’s always fun when one turns up. Today I became aware of three — highly unusual! Stranger still: they’re all linked together
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Barbara Shermund Exhibit Opens…Liza Donnelly To Speak Feminine Wiles: The Art Of Barbara Shermund has begun its run at the United Theater in Westerly, Rhode Island. The exhibit will be up until September 17th of this year. Read more here. As part of the celebration of Ms. Shermund’s art, Liza Donnelly will speak at the United, August 4th, at 7:30.
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Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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In One Issue Paging through a long ago issue of The New Yorker — the issue of January 21, 1956 to be exact — I was struck by the number of ads using the work of New Yorker cartoonists. There’s Peter Arno for The Pajama Game (the drawing appeared on the cover of Playbill and on the soundtrack album), and
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