Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 19: Look Magazine Miscellany Courtesy of ComicsDC’s Mike Rhode, here’s a quartet of ads from Look magazine. The Otto Soglow Pepsi ad, the Richard Taylor Pepsodent ad and the The Richard Decker cops & robber ad are all from the issue of February 23, 1943. The Richard Decker stocking full of smokes ad
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Gahan Wilson’s New Website; A Mimi Pond Interview; New Case For Pencils with Jeremy Nguyen
Gahan Wilson’s New Website The one-and-only Gahan Wilson has a new website (this news courtesy of Comics DC’s Mike Rhode, as is the Mimi Pond post below). Link here __________________________________________________________________________ A Mimi Pond Interview From Paste, August 22, 2017 — “The Customer Is Always Wrong‘s Mimi Pond On Turning Diner Drama into Period Piece Drama” — this interview In conjunction
Read moreKarasik Explains “How A Cartoon Is Funny”; Interview of Interest: Mimi Pond
Karasik Explains How A Cartoon Is Funny Paul Karasik has dissected a New Yorker cartoon or two. He continues this coming Monday. Details here. A Karasik quote of interest from the linked article: “Despite E.B. White’s famous saying, ‘Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few are interested and the frog dies,’ my goal is to explain how a cartoon
Read moreAlex Noel Watson: 1929- 2017
The Professional Cartoonists Organisation has posted the sad news that Alex Noel Watson has passed away. You will read that he was a delightful person, a real character –and that was exactly the case; he was a high-spirited exceptionally friendly man of many talents. Read the announcement here. Mr. Watson’s work appears in The New Yorker Cartoon Album
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