Harry Bliss on being a Sendak Fellow: “It’s Quite an Honor…He Inspired the Hell Out of Me.”

  According to a Facebook post by Harry Bliss, he is a winner of the 2014 Sendak Fellowship.  From the Fellowship letter posted by Mr. Bliss: “The Fellowship was established in 2010 as a residency program for artists who tell stories with illustrations.” Bliss has been contributing cartoons  and covers to The New Yorker since January of 1998.  Visit his

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Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Returns; TCJ posts Sendak Tributes; Liza Donnelly’s Mother’s Day Forbes column

Peter Steiner’s blog, Hopeless But Not Serious is back!   See it here.   Over at The Comics Journal the tributes to Maurice Sendak are pouring in. Sendak, who passed away this past Tuesday at age 83, contributed one cover to The New Yorker, and in the same issue (September 27, 1993) contributed a two page spread, In The Dumps, co-written/drawn

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