The Thursday Watch: Ward Sutton Accepts Herblock Prize; King Features Signs Liniers; Conde Nast Consolidates Space/New Yorker to Switch Floors

Ward Sutton Accepts Herblock Prize From Michael Cavna, The Washington Post, “2018 Herblock Prize Winner is Inspired by His Forebears — and Enraged by Trump”–this piece on Ward Sutton’s Library of Congress acceptance speech. Mr. Sutton began contributing to The New Yorker in October 2007. Mr. Sutton’s website: http://www.suttonimpactstudio.com/ ______________________________________________________ King Features Signs Liniers From Todd Allen,  The Comics Beat, May 10,

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Book of Interest: King of the Comics

King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate, due in November from IDW Publishing (they’re the folks who brought us the fabulous Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and The Little King), this looks to be a must have for every cartoon library. Do  Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters, syndicated briefly by King in the 1930s,  make an appearance?  We’ll

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