Video Of Interest With Emma Allen And Jeremy Nguyen The New Yorker cartoon editor, Emma Allen speaks, virtually, with cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen in this 8 minute video, “How To Draw A City” Mr. Nguyen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Visit his website here. Ms. Allen was appointed the magazine’s cartoon editor in the Spring of 2017. …and
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Off The Spill’s Shelves: People, Books & Book People Here’s a really fun read, published in 1980. Short interviews with a ton of folks, as you see by the list (shown below) on the back cover. My initial interest in this book was that it included New Yorker contributors such as Renata Adler, John McPhee, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John
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This morning I was thinking about Arnie Levin’s humble 5 1/4″ x 6″ hundred-and-twenty page paperback one-and-only cartoon collection, published in 1980 by Plume: I’ll Skip The Appetizer — I Ate The Flowers. If you don’t have a copy, well, try to find one (I see there aren’t any available on either AbeBooks, Amazon, or Ebay — heavens!). Selfishly I
Read more_____________________________________________________________________________ From Attempted Bloggery, July 19, 2020, “…Rea Irvin’s Killed New Yorker Cover Art Printing Plate” — an interesting item rescued from a long-ago flooded New Yorker basement courtesy of a Spill fave blogger. Left: Rea Irvin, The New Yorker’s jack-of-all-graphics ___________________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State OF Mind Dives Deep into the July 4th & July 11th 1931 Issues
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