Fave Photos Of The Week This past Thursday, a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists hopped in a car and drove upstate to Rhinebeck, NY from the isle of Manhattan. Another cartoonist drove west from Connecticut, and yet another traveled east across the Hudson River from Woodstock. All of them settled down in a coffee shop for hours of cartoon merriment.
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The cartoonist, Danny Shanahan, who contributed drawings to The New Yorker from September of 1988 through last year, died early this morning, according to his wife, Janet Stetson. He was 64, just days shy of his 65th birthday. His death was due to complications from surgery. Danny became known at first as a pun-centric cartoonist, but soon enough he was
Read moreFrank Modell’s Brendan Gill I came away from a recent visit to my favorite (used) book store, Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York with the brochure handed out at Brendan Gill’s memorial back in 1998 (see the details of the tribute below). I’m indebted to one of my book store haunting friends, Mark Burns for digging the brochure out
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