“Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights From The Collection Of Jules Feiffer” is on for June 20th. The collection contains numerous pieces by such New Yorker contributors as Charles Addams, Mick Stevens, Peter Kuper, Carl Rose, Edward Sorel, Mischa Richter, Leo Cullum, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Edward Koren, Wallace Morgan, Gahan Wilson, Alan Dunn, and John Held, Jr.. –above:
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Ed Himelblau Returns To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mr. Himelblau, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker in December of 2021, makes a return appearance on the CCCP, joining co-hosts Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, and Nicole Chrolavicius (filling in for Paul Nesja). — photo above from Mr. Himelblau’s first appearance: from upper left, going clockwise: Beth
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Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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_____________________________________________________________ It’s a ways off (May of 2023) but no time like the present to note Julia Wertz’s next book, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story. From the publisher: “In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and
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