The Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated; Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 25: Peter Arno, Pt. 2; An Otto Soglow Wartime Original; Applause Applause! Julia Wertz

The Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated And they’re off! “Max” & “Simon” dive into the latest New Yorker cartoons, apprising and rating as they go.  I noticed a lot of “4”s handed out this time around (and one “6” — the tippy-top number of their system). _________________________________________________________________ Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 25: Peter Arno, Pt. 2 We

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Wertz Well Received; Attempted Bloggery with Leo Cullum on the Money, an Original Arthur Getz New Yorker Cover, and Arno in College (Humor)

From the New York Times, October 17, 2017, “A Graphic Novelist’s Passionate Anatomy of New York”  — this review of Julia Wertz’s Tenements, Towers & Trash (with Roz Chast content as well) ____________________________________________________________________ Cullum, Getz and Arno on Attempted Bloggery Head on over to Attempted Bloggery for an interesting variety of posts on Leo Cullum, Arthur Getz and Peter Arno.

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Roz Chast Simpsonized; Wertz’s Tenements,Towers & Trash

 Roz Chast (playing herself) appears on a recent episode of The Simpsons.  Read Michael Cavna’s Comic Riffs piece about it here.  _________________________________________________________ From  Hyperallergic, October 6, 2017, “A Cartoonist’s Dazzling History of NYC”  — a piece by Dominic Umile about Julia Wertz and her latest book, Tenements, Towers & Trash.    

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Video of Interest: Liza Donnelly; Wertz’s Tenements, Towers & Trash; Booth at the Society of Illustrators; Steinberg at the National Gallery of Art

Video of Interest: Liza Donnelly From Medium, here’s a  video of Liza Donnelly speaking about her work (and doing a little work). See it here. ____________________________________________________________________ An Excerpt from Wertz’s Tenements, Towers & Trash From Curbed, October 4, 2017, “Julia Wertz’s Tenements, Towers & Trash is a Witty Chronicle of an Ever-Changing NYC” — read it here and see an

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