Sitting around a dinner table last night with three other New Yorker cartoonists, I mentioned I was working on an interview with a gag writer. Although none of us were gag writers or had ever used the services of gag writers, I was aware of the novelty of the situation: three out of four of us
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Holy Happenstance, Batman!
Sharp-eyed New Yorker cartoon followers will notice that the magazine recently ran two Bat-Signal drawings: one by Danny Shanahan in this most recent issue, and one last week by Ben Schwartz. A quick glance at the magazine’s Cartoon Bank archive turned up only two previous efforts, but I have a feeling
Read moreTom Toro on His Second Time Around Doing The Daily…and His New Website; Kaamran Hafeez Begins The Daily
Tom Toro (left) has handed off The New Yorker‘s Daily Cartoon to Kaamran Hafeez. I asked Tom, who has now done the Daily twice, how it was for him the second time around. Here’s what he said: The evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with Daily ‘Toons. And coffee. That too. It was
Read moreKaamran Hafeez on Using Gag Writers; Westport Historical Society New Yorker Cover Artists Bio Pt.3: Helen Hokinson, Reginald Massie & Arthur Getz
Here’s Kaamran Hafeez, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2010, on using gag writers and co-crediting their work. The link will take you to his website where you’ll find all sorts of other information (a bio, work for other publications, etc.). Here’s the link to his work on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site. To the left:
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