Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,
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Video Of Interest Last Sunday’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2020 panel, “Legacy And Change At The New Yorker” is now viewable here. The panel includes The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, and cartoonists Amy Hwang, Roz Chast, and Liz Montague. The panel runs just over an hour. ____________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Brooke Bourgeois, who began contributing to The
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David Salle & Peter Arno From The East Hampton Star, Oct. 1, 2020: The article includes this: “The figures are painted in a bold linear style inspired by the mid-20th-century New Yorker cartoons of Peter Arno.” __________________________________________________ As noted on this site the other day, no cartoons in this upcoming title (out October 6th). There is however, a good bit
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Video Of Interest: How To Draw Social Change The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (above left) speaks with Liz Montague, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2019 in this 7+ minute video. And More! Emma Allen and Liz Montague will join New Yorker cartoonists Amy Hwang (who began contributing to the magazine in 2010) and
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