This has been an unusually tough year within this peculiar family — this family of New Yorker cartoonists. Within seven months our ranks have been thinned by four: Frank Modell, William Hamilton, Anatol Kovarsky and now, this past week, Michael Crawford. Michael is remembered below by some of his cartoonist colleagues. My thanks to all for their contributions. Note: Link
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New Yorker Cartoonist Michael Crawford: An Ink Spill Appreciation
Michael Crawford, who began publishing his drawings in The New Yorker in 1984, passed away this past Tuesday afternoon. The first time I laid eyes on him, thirty-two years ago, I was sitting in a street level apartment next to Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village. The apartment belonged to another New Yorker cartoonist, Richard Cline. I was
Read moreNew Yorker’s Remnick on the Radio
Coming in just a few days (the 25th of October): The New Yorker Radio Hour. Read all about it here (and yes, there’ll be some cartoon/cartoonists content) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ …From the What’re the Odds Department: In this week’s New Yorker (the issue of October 26th): two drawings based on lamp pull-cords (the drawings are by Tom Toro
Read moreBooth, 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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