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 entry on the A-Z:
Dana Fradon Born, Chicago, Illinois, 1922. Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago prior to service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Following his service, he attended the Art Students League of New York, NYer work: May 1, 1948 – . Collection: Insincerely Yours (Scribners, 1978) To read Ink Spill’s 2013 interview with Mr. Fradon, “Harold Ross’s Last Cartoonist” link here.
— many thanks to David Pomerantz for bringing Mr. Fradon’s birthday to our attention
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Profile: George Booth
From The Wall Street Journal, “Cartoonist George Booth and His Pet Projects” — this piece on one of the New Yorker‘s Cartoon Gods.
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Dick Buchanan (via Mike Lynch) on Syd Hoff
Dick Buchanan continues to provide us with cartoon clippings (via Mike Lynch’s blog). This week he’s selected a bundle of work by Syd Hoff. See it all here. (above: Hoff in True, July 1947)
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Of Interest: Growing Up In Wartime France by Huguette Martel
From the New York Review of Books, “Growing Up in Wartime France” by Huguette Martel, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1990.
For more on Ms. Martell see Liza Donnelly’s Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons; to see some of Ms. Martel’s New Yorker work go here.
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Audio: Jason Chatfield on Caricaturing Trump
From abc.net, May 8, 2018, “Aussie New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield on caricaturing Trump” — this short audio clip. Mr. Chatfield began contributing to The New Yorker in July of last year. Visit his website here: https://www.jasonchatfield.com/