Helen Hokinson on A Case For Pencils; A “New” Cartoonist from 1999; Swann Galleries New Yorker Cartoon Offerings

Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils post features the late very great Helen Hokinson. Take a look! Ms. Hokinson’s entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Helen Hokinson (above) Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection:

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Sipress Sees The Birds; Feiffer, Katchor, Burns, Tomorrow, Mankoff & more at Small Press Expo; Books on the Horizon

  From newyorker.com, August 27, 2014: “A Fear of The Birds“ — a piece by the cartoonist, David Sipress.       _________________________________________________________________________________________________   From Michael Cavna’s  Washington Post “Comic Riffs” column, August 27, 2014, “SPX 2014: From alt-weeklies to web-comics, Small Press Expo announces its programming slate” Among those scheduled to appear are Ben Katchor, Tom Tomorrow, Jules Feiffer,

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