Lisa Loring, The Addams Family’s Wednesday Addams, Has Died Read Ms. Loring’s New York Times obit here. __________________________________________________________________ Keith Knight Speaks At University Of Oregon Mr. Knight, who began contributing to
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SPX 2022 Special Guests The Small Press Expo has posted a number of special guests for their September get-together in Maryland. Among the guests are three New Yorker contributors: Keith Knight, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019, Sofia Warren, who began contributing in 2017, and Lonnie Millsap, who began contributing in 2018. More information here at
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Emily Flake*, Amy Hwang**, and Chris Weyant are the three finalists in the (gag***) “Gag Cartooning” division of the 2021 National Cartoonists Society Awards. In the running for the NCS’s “Cartoonist Of The Year” award are two New Yorker colleagues: Keith Knight, and Edward Sorel. And among the Advertising/Product Illustration award nominees is another New Yorker colleague, Ivan
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Early Richter I’ve always thought that the late Mischa Richter’s cartoon roots were heavily influenced by Peter Arno’s work (something he vehemently denied when I interviewed him in 1999).* This early Mischa Richter drawing currently on Ebay is interesting in that it seems to show a Steig influence. The fellow staring at the wall thermometer is right out of William
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