Courtesy of Mike Lynch’s blog, we are able to read what is surely an obscure interview with Chon Day that appeared in a publication from the early 1960s, Pro Cartoonist & Gagwriter. Here’s Mr. Day’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Chon Day (self portrait above from Collier’s Collects Its Wits) Born April 6, 1907, Chatham , NJ. Died January 1,
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Tilley Watch Online; Blog of Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind; Even More Hoff on Attempted Bloggery; Cartoon Cliches (3 parts)
Not so unusual: mostly a Trump week on the Daily, which leads me to note this online query that popped up recently. Four out of five of the week’s Daily cartoons feature Mr. Trump, while the fifth is inseparable from him. The Daily cartoonists this week: David Sipress, Brendan Loper, Lars Kenseth, Ellis Rosen, and Peter Kuper. All of these
Read moreVintage Steig; A Richard Decker Self Portrait & One More Kovarsky!
Vintage Steig From Mike Lynch’s blog, courtesy of Dick Buchanan’s treasure trove of cartoon art, “William Steig Gag Cartoons 1946 – 1965” — see them all here. (above: from Look magazine, February 17, 1959). _____________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Self Portrait and One More Kovarsky! And speaking of Dick Buchanan, an interesting tear sheet containing a Richard Decker self portrait is
Read moreWalking Tour of Interest: Library of Congress’s “Drawn To Purpose”; Exhibit of Interest: Shannon Wheeler; Kovarsky Opening Reception at the Society of Illustrators, Friday, Jan. 12!
From Comics DC, January 9, 2018, “Touring the LoC’s Drawn to Purpose exhibit with curator Martha Kennedy” — an interesting walk through with Mike Rhode. Among the New Yorker contributors mentioned: Barbara Shermund, Roberta MacDonald, Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Helen Hokinson, and Alice Harvey. Read it here. Link to the Library of Congress’s page here. ________________________________________________________________________________ Exhibit of Interest: Shannon
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