Ken Levine Interviews David Sipress From Ken Levine’s “Hollywood And Levine” pod, March 24, 2022: Newbie New Yorker cartoonist Ken Levine (his first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of January 4, 2022) interviews David Sipress about his new book, What’s So Funny? Listen here. This is Part 1 of a two part interview. Part 2 will be
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Event Of Interest: Sara Lautman And Liza Donnelly At Politics & Prose Sara Lautman (below, left) will join Liza Donnelly at Politics & Prose, March 18th, to kick off the release of Ms. Donnelly’s new expanded edition of her must-have Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists. All the info here. __________________________________________ Pia Guerra & Ian Boothby On The
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Alan Dunn’s 1,981st New Yorker Drawing In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts are established as fact. I suppose it could be as simple as someone offhandedly saying to a colleague in an elevator one
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Personal History: Getting In As mentioned here a few times, I’ve been writing a memoir of my time at The New Yorker (my time continues there, as does the writing). Someone in the publishing biz recently told me that a book in progress is sometimes referred to as “still baking” — I like that. In the midst of this memoir-ing
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