Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik & Bob Mankoff’s Semi-Serious Discussion on Martha’s Vineyard; Fave Photo of the Day

This Friday, Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik & Bob Mankoff will discuss New Yorker cartooning following a screening of the documentary film,  “Very Semi-Serious” Details here. More on the panelists: Mick Stevens’ website Paul Karasik’s blog Bob Mankoff’s website ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Fave Photo of the Day George Booth, Marisa Marchetto Acocella, and Matthew Diffee at this evening’s  NYPL event (see the July

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Booth, Acocella, & Diffee’s Illustrated Conversation at The New York Public Library; Liza Donnelly to Speak at The Norman Rockwell Museum; Michael Crawford’s Paintings Exhibited

George Booth, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, and Matthew Diffee will engage in an illustrated conversation Tuesday, July 21st at the NYPL’s Mid-Manhattan Library.  Details here.     Mr. Booth, who began contributing  to The New Yorker in 1969, was recently featured in Richard Gehr’s book of interviews, I Only Read It For the Cartoons.              

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Book of Interest: Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s “Ann Tenna”

Due September 1st, from Knopf, Ann Tenna from Marisa Acocella Marchetto. From the publisher’s note: From the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and acclaimed author of Cancer Vixen, a brilliant, funny, and wildly imaginative first novel: the story of an influential gossip columnist brought face-to-face with her higher self—and a challenge to change her life for the better. Link here to

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