On his 73rd birthday, Bob Mankoff, newly un-hitched from his duties as cartoon editor of the New Yorker, let the word go forth he was immediately beginning a new job as cartoon editor (and humor editor) of the 83 year old men’s magazine, Esquire. Pre-dating Playboy, Esquire was once one of the major markets in this country for cartoons embracing
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Arnie Levin profiled in TCJ’s Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist
The Comics Journal continues its Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist series with Arnie Levin. Others in the series: Roz Chast and Lee Lorenz.
Read moreMaking a Splash at Esquire
I found something I was looking for the other day: a log of cartoons I kept in my nascent years of cartooning. Looking through I realized that the only drawings I sold in the Fall of 1977 — right after breaking into The New Yorker — were to Esquire. During that year Esquire was being retooled
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From NY1, February 2012, this must see video: “One On 1 Profile: Award-Winning Cartoonist, Political Satirist Edward Sorel Documents American Culture Through The Covers of Prominent Magazines”
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