Courtesy of Bob Eckstein, a quartet of photographs from last night’s event celebrating Sam Gross‘s work. [From the top: Sam Gross; a projected Gross drawing; David Borchart, Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo), and Amy Kurzweil, a brand new New Yorker cartoonist (her first cartoon appeared in the April 4th issue); Mr. Gross and long -time contributor, Mort Gerberg]
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New Yorker Festival’s Cartoon Events
Several cartoon-related events at this year’s New Yorker festival: Friday, October 2nd: a showing of Very Semi-Serious, a documentary film featuring some of the magazine’s cartoonists, followed by a panel discussion including Liana Finck, Emily Flake, Mort Gerberg and the magazine’s current cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff. Moderated by Roz Chast. Details here. Saturday, October 3rd: Matt Diffee talks, shows
Read moreBook of Interest: The Realist Cartoons; Feiffer at 86; Mick Stevens Talks Batch
It’s going to be awhile before this appears in bookstores (April of 2016) but the wait will be worth it. Here’s a description from the publisher (Fantagraphics): The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that ran from 1958 to 2001 and published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in an American magazine. The Realist Cartoons collects, for
Read moreGerberg’s Art Party
From bergino.com, “Up next in the Clubhouse: Thursday October 23 / 6:00 – 9:00PM Fall Art Party ‘The Mind of Mort Gerberg’ legendary New Yorker Cartoonist” Gerberg’s first New Yorker drawing appeared in the April 10, 1965 issue. Link here to Mort Gerberg’s New Yorker work on the magazine’s Cartoon Bank site. Link here to visit his website.
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