With a Reuben Award for his graphic novel, Kafkaesque only recently tucked under his arm, New Yorker and MAD contributor, Peter Kuper, has another book coming our way this November from W.W. Norton & Co., an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The non-stop Mr. Kuper also has a comic about Kafka in this week’s Sunday New York
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Tom Chitty Talks Implied Noses and Sketch-Burps
The first time you set eyes on a Tom Chitty cartoon there’s no way you’ll not have some kind of reaction. His is not a cookie cutter cartoon style, but something expressly his own. Like Lars Kenseth, Mr. Chitty has dared to go to some other cartoon dimension — a place with unfamiliar human anatomy. He and Mr. Kenseth are
Read moreEdward Sorel, Christopher Weyant, Kim Warp, and Liza Donnelly to Appear at “Satire and The City” Political Cartoon Festival
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convenes at Hofstra University in the earliest days of November for several days of panel discussions and interviews. Edward Sorel will be interviewed by Signe Wilkinson; on another day, Liza Donnelly will moderate a discussion with New Yorker cartoonists Christopher Weyant and Kim Warp. There will also be a panel discussion with MAD magazine
Read moreChecking In: Peter Kuper Talks Spy Vs. Spy, The New Yorker, and So Much More
When I think of MAD magazine I think of Alfred E. Neuman, of course, and Al Jaffee’s Fold-In, and Spy vs Spy. For the past twenty years the latter has been in the hands of Peter Kuper. His non-Spy work has been appearing more and more in The New Yorker these days, both the print version (an example above —
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