The very entertaining Bob Eckstein will speak this coming Monday on all aspects of his fun and far-reaching career. Details here. Mr. Eckstein’s latest book, Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores, was a New York Times Best-Seller. His cartoons appear in the New Yorker as well as numerous other publications. (Above right: an Eckstein New Yorker
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The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna on the National Cartoonists Society Awards
Here’s Michael Cavna of The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs with as good a wrap-up of last nights NCS Awards as you’ll find. ************* Ink Spill congratulates all the winners, with an extra thumbs up to New Yorker colleagues, Roz Chast & Liza Donnelly.
Read moreTwohy, Eckstein & Diffee among National Cartoonist Society Nominees
The National Cartoonists Society has just announced its 2013 Divisional Nominees. Among the categories are Editorial Cartoons, Newspaper Illustration, Feature Animation, Comic Books, and Graphic Novels. In the Magazine Gag Cartoon category, three New Yorker cartoonists fill the slate: Bob Eckstein, Matt Diffee, and long time New Yorker contributor, Mike Twohy. Bob Eckstein is also nominated in the Newspaper Illustration
Read moreNCS Divisional Award Nominees; Polan continues to see things; Sutton on Mad Men’s future ; Paul Karasik curates
From the National Cartoonists Society, the 2012 Divisional Award nominees include a number of artists from The New Yorker: Edward Sorel, Barbara Smaller, Glen LeLievre, Matthew Diffee, Zachary Kanin, Ben Katchor, and Bruce McCall. Winners to be announced May 26th, 2012. Over at The New York Times (online), Jason Polan has posted his second in a series of What
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