The Wednesday Watch: Happy 96th, Dana Fradon!; Profile of Interest: George Booth; A Syd Hoff Selection; Hugette Martell in NY Review of Books; Chatfield Chats About Trump

Happy 96th Dana Fradon!  Very best birthday wishes to Mr. Fradon, our senior New Yorker cartoonist.  Above, a powerhouse quartet: three New Yorker cartoonists and their editor. Left to right: Charles Saxon, James Geraghty (the New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 – 1973), Dana Fradon, and Whitney Darrow, Jr.  Westport, September, 1982. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Geraghty Herndon). Mr. Fradon’s

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Cuneo’s Klam Drawings; Sikoryak Illustrates Trumpisms; Finck Covers Closet and a Novel

Cuneo’s Klam Drawings What fun! New Yorker cover artist and illustrator, John Cuneo, has supplied illustrations for Matthew Klam’s latest book, Who Is Rich?: A Novel ;  what’s fun, besides Mr. Cuneo’s work — called “…darkly humorous…” in The Washington Post’s  review of the book — is that the novel’s main character is a…cartoonist.         Here’s how the

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A Glen Baxter Sampler; Comics Academic Karen Green Interviewed

The New York Review of Books takes a look at some of the work in Glen Baxter’s new book, Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings (published by New York Review Comics).     __________________________________________________________________________   For anyone interested in the who what where why and when of the ever expanding graphic novel collection at Columbia University this interview’s for

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Tom Toro on Pencils…and More Spills

A Case For Pencils is visited by Tom Toro this week.  Check it out! Link here to Mr. Toro’s website.     _______________________________________________________________________               …Mike Lynch celebrates the 99th birthday of Virgil Partch aka VIP…   …Two pieces on The New York Review of Books new New York Review Comics, including titles by Abner

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