I couldn’t be more pleased that Attempted Bloggery has posted its first interview; the occasion happily coincides with the publication of Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist. Read it here. Here’s a snippet of the interview: Q: …In 1925 Arno came to the New Yorker during the magazine’s rocky first year.
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New Jersey’s New Yorkers…an Ink Spill Map
Here’s a look at Garden State born New Yorker contributors (including its current editor) as well as New Yorker contributors (all cartoonists) not Jersey born, but currently living there. Also included: New Yorker contributors who, though not native-born, grew up there and/or lived there for a good while. If anyone out there has others I’ve missed (and I’m sure I
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From the archives, a rejected cover from ages ago…
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From The Dept. of Self Promotion Please forgive this moment of tooting my own galley. It’s an odd and interesting thing finally seeing Arno’s biography closing in on publication. Just another month or so until it’s finished, and then off it goes out into the world (Pub date: April 19th)
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