Cornish Cartoonist Residency Fellowship Offered; Today’s Daily Shouts By… Ali Solomon; Podcast Of Interest: Mort Gerberg; Video of Interest From The National Cartoonists Society; Fave Photo Of The Day: 3 NCS Award Winners

The Center For Cartoon Studies up in White River Junction, Vermont has announced its fourth Residency Fellowship.  According to the announcement: This residency is made possible by former CCS board member, cartoonist Harry Bliss, whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker. “I want to attract the best cartoonists working today and create a residency that is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for storytellers who

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The Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 20, 2019; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Joe Dator

The Cover: It’s the Innovators Issue, hence the use of some headings floating in yellow-orangey color fields, like so:     Let’s hope these color fields aren’t permanent innovations. On the cover: robots by Tom Gauld.  Read what he has to say about his work here. The cover reminded me ever-so-slightly of Peter Arno’s meeting-of-the-dogs cover from the ancient times. 

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Two Book Events Of Interest: David Borchart, Bob Eckstein, Nick Downes At Word; Mort Gerberg, Sofia Warren, Garry Trudeau At The New York Historical Society; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: P.C. Vey; Yesterday’s Daily Shouts… By Liana Finck; Joe Dator’s New Website!; Today’s Daily Shouts By A Trio Of Cartoonists

Next week, two events of great interest to New Yorker cartoon aficionados. On Tuesday, April 23rd, Bob Eckstein’s promotional tour for The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons makes a stop at Word Bookstore. Mr. Eckstein will be joined by fellow New Yorker cartoonists Nick Downes and David Borchart.  Mr. Downes began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998.  Both

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More MoCCA Today (With Photos) & “My First MoCCA”; David Sipress On A 1969 Harvard Protest

More MoCCA Today At least three New Yorker cartoonist events scheduled today: Liana Finck in conversation with Gabrielle Bell; a “spotlight” on Mark Alan Stamaty; Emily Flake as part of a panel, “Narratives On Motherhood”; cover artist Ivan Brunetti in a panel on “Comics and the Teaching Artist” (right: Ms. Bell and Ms. Finck today. Courtesy of Stephen Nadler). And

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