New Yorker Cartoons Golden Age Editor; Roz Chast in San Francisco; More Spills with Nguyen, Rosen, Eckstein, Flake, Finck, Donnelly and Arno

        Rounding out this historic week for New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists as we say “Goodbye” to Bob Mankoff and “Hello” to Emma Allen is an article from the early 1970s as another transition was about to take place: long-time New Yorker Art Editor, James Geraghty  was beginning to think retirement, but his successor was not yet

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Liana Finck’s “Rage Poses”; Robert Sikoryak Speaks

From newyorker.com’s Daily Shouts, April 7, 2017, Liana Finck’s “Rage Poses”  — Ms. Finck’s work sometimes reminds me, in a very good way,  of the earliest New Yorker Thurber drawings.Below, on the left is Thurber’s very first drawing in the magazine, January 31, 1931, and on the right, one of his illustrations from the 1929 book he co-wrote with E.B.

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The Evolution of a Hair Raising Cartoon; Donnelly, Chast, Finck and Flake on a Pen America Festival Panel

From Liza Donnelly, “The News is Hair-Raising: The Evolution of a New York Times Cartoon Gif” — Ms. Donnelly explains how a drawing developed into an animated piece that accompanied a recent New York Times op-ed piece.       ______________________________________________________________________________             This event of note from The Pen World Voices Festival: Gender and Power:

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The “…other cartoonists for The New Yorker…”

A recent New York Times article, “The Making of Virtually Real Art with Google’s Tilt Brush” (January 4, 2016) named just two of the New Yorker cartoonists who joined Bob Mankoff and Roz Chast in exploring, what the Times described as Google’s  “virtual reality setup that allows people to paint with light….” In the article we are told that “Bob

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