Tag: Mort Gerberg

Society Of Illustrators Names Hall Of Fame Inductees; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Shannon Wheeler; More Gerberg; Event Of Interest: Chris Ware; Even More Shermund; Interviews Of Interest: Bob Eckstein, Gahan Wilson

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From The Daily Cartoonist, February 14, 2019, “Society Of illustrators 2019 Hall of Fame” — Read here! (Spoiler: Two New Yorker folks named!)

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Today’s Daily Cartoon

Today’s Daily cartoon, tuned in to today’s heart-shaped celebration, is by Shannon Wheeler, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009.

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More Gerberg

Mr. Gerberg’s first New Yorker cartoon, published in the issue of April 10, 1965.

From amNewYork, February 14, 2019, “Mort Gerberg retrospective spotlights cartoonnist’s witty views of NY life”

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From The Albany Times-Union, February 12, 2019, Cartoonist Chris Ware Speaks, Signs Books.

Mr. Ware’s Monograph, published in 2017

Mr. Ware began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999.

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Even More Shermund

A Shermund self-portrait

From Columbus Monthly, “Burying Barbara Shermund, A Forgotten Cartoonist” — more on the late great Ms. Shermund. Read here.

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Interview of Interest: Bob Eckstein

Bob Eckstein’s fabulous Snowman book

A radio interview with a lot of snowman talk (as you’d expect when the World’s Greatest Snowman Expert is the interviewee), and some cartoon talk as well at the close. Listen here.

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Interview of Interest: Gahan Wilson

Jason Sacks interviews Gahan Wilson. Listen here.

Mr. Wilson began contributing to The New Yorker in 1976. Link here to his website.

Fave Photo Of The Day: Cartoonists Out West; Podcast Of Interest: Mort Gerberg; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Michael Shaw; Liza Donnelly Live-Draws The Grammys For CBS

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Here’s a fun crowd dining out on the left coast. From lower left, clockwise: Lars Kenseth, Lila Ash, Olivia de Recat, Sharon Isadora Levy, Ivan Ehlers (Mad Magazine cartoonist and a contributor to The New Yorker‘s Daily cartoon), David Ostow, and American Bystander‘s Michael Gerber. (My thanks to Mr. Ostow for the photo).

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Podcast Of Interest: Mort Gerberg

Mr. Gerberg’s latest collection

From Gil Roth, a good friend of New Yorker cartoonists (see the list of cartoonists he’s interviewed) this new podcast with long-time contributor Mort Gerberg (he began contributing to the magazine in 1965). Lots of talk about The New Yorker, the business of cartooning.

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Today’s Daily Cartoon

Today’s Daily — a pet piece — is by Michael Shaw, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1999.

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Liza Donnelly Live-Draws Grammys

Wearing one of her other hats (that of Resident Cartoonist for CBS) Liza Donnelly drew some of the action at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Link here to read her account, and see the collected drawings.

Article Of Interest: John Cuneo; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoon; Fave Photo Of The Day: Emma Allen & Mort Gerberg; Article Of Interest: Will McPhail; New Yorker Cover Artist Jenny Kroik’s Tools Of The Trade On Case For Pencils

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Above: John Cuneo, left foreground, at The Society of Illustrators. Next to him is Anelle Miller, the Director of the Society. Left to right, rear, cartoonist Felipe Galindo, Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery, and cartoonist Marc Bilgrey

From Hudson Valley One, January 31, 2019, “Woodstocker captures the President for New Yorker covers and more”

— this article on New Yorker cover artist, John Cuneo. .

Today’s New Yorker Daily cartoon, featuring a political Frankenstein, is by David Sipress. See it here. Mr. Sipress began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1998

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Fave Photo Of The Day: Emma Allen and Mort Gerberg

Above: The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, and long-time cartoonist, Mort Gerberg, at last night’s Book Culture book event in NYC celebrating the release of Mort Gerberg On the Scene: A 50 Year Cartoon Chronicle.

— My thanks to Marcie Jacobs-Cole for the photo.

Mr. Gerberg began contributing to The New Yorker in April of 1965.

Ms. Allen has been The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor since May of 2017.

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Article of Interest: Will McPhail

From The Student Newspaper, “An Interview with Will McPhail: Cartoonist for The New Yorker”

Mr. McPhail began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. Link here to his website.

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Case For Pencils Spotlights Jenny Kroik

Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils looks at New Yorker cover artist, Jenny Kroik’s tools of the trade. See it all here!

The Wednesday Tilley Watch: Parker, Gerberg, Chast, Donnelly & More…

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Items of interest this mid-week:

Two reminders of upcoming events.

On January 29, the great illustrator Robert Andrew Parker (shown below), whose work has appeared numerous times in The New Yorker, will be featured at The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium. Details here.

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On January 30th, Long-time cartoonist Mort Gerberg will be in conversation with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen. The event is a celebration of Mr. Gerberg’s new book, On The Scene. Details here.





…From the west coast, news that a television series in in the works based on Roz Chast‘s highly acclaimed book, Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

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…and from the east coast here’s a CNN piece by Liza Donnelly on her recent live-drawing assignment at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C.

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…there’s a new installment in the New Yorker‘s celebrity cartoon caption video series, Caption That Cartoon. This time it’s Adam Conover putting the caption marker to paper (I urge the magazine to ID the cartoonists whose work appears on these videos. Until they do I’ll provide IDs). In this episode the cartoonists are (in order of appearance):

Mick Stevens, Victoria Roberts, Jack Ziegler, Michael Crawford, Drew Dernavich, yours truly, Will McPhail, Frank Cotham, and Tom Cheney.

Above: Adam Conover looks over a Mick Stevens drawing in this screen grab from the video

Cartoon Events Of Interest: Ken Krimstein With Roz Chast, David Sipress, Peter Kuper, And Others; Mort Gerberg Book Event

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A Reminder: Ken Krimstein, author of the wonderful The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt will conduct three panels at the Yivo Institute For Jewish Research (in NYC) this month. He’ll be joined on various dates by some heavy-hitters in the New Yorker cartoon universe. Artists such as Roz Chast, Mort Gerberg, David Sipress, Amy Kurzweil and Peter Kuper will join Mr. Krimstein. All the info here.

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And speaking of Mort Gerberg, he’ll be at Book Culture on January 30th celebrating the release of his latest book, Mort Gerberg On The Scene. Details here. Mr. Gerberg has been contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker since April of 1965.