Fave Photo Of The Week 2024 Hall of Fame inductee Steve Brodner posted this photo from last night’s Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame Awards dinner. Left to right: Joe Ciardiello, Edward Sorel, Liza Donnelly, James McMullan, Rick Meyerowitz, and Victor Juhasz _______________________________________________________________________ Some New Yorker Folks At Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) CXC is a “free comics art and
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Book Of Interest…A New Biography Of Katharine S. White Linda Davis’s Onward And Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White, published in 1987, has been one of my major go-to New Yorker biographies since its publication in 1987. It’ll be interesting to compare Amy Reading’s The World She Edited (HarperCollins). Ms. White relationship to The New Yorker‘s cartoons began early in
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Charles Addams’ Biographer Linda Davis On MAD Article of Interest: Charles Addams’s biographer, Linda Davis, on the MAD exhibit currently up at the Norman Rockwell Museum. From The Jewish Federation Of The Berkshires, “Mad About Mad: An Iconoclast Comes To The Norman Rockwell Museum” More information about the exhibit here. _______________________________________________________________________ Maddie Dai, who began contributing to The New
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Fab biographer, Linda Davis (Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, and Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White) is the most recent guest on the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Photo above, from top left, going clockwise: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Ms. Davis. Listen here. Here’s the must-have 1991 Charles Addams anthology mentioned by Ms. Davis on
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