Very Funny Ladies…Indexing Cartoonists are often asked which comes first: the pictures or the words. My answer has always been (for me): I dunno. But lately, as we near Fall and the publication of an updated edition of Liza Donnelly’s 2006 Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, words seem, if not first, then
Read moreSeveral 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 moreThe New Yorker Festival program has been up on their website for a few days. Besides the panel on Saul Steinberg (“One Hundred Years of Saul Steinberg”) mentioned here the other day, there’ll be a conversation between Bob Mankoff and Roz Chast, both of whom have published memoirs this year: Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and Mankoff’s
Read morenewyorker.com has listed (on its Festival Wire — requires sign up) its entire schedule for this year’s New Yorker Festival (September 30, October 1 -2). Cartoon events include a talk by Roz Chast (who will also sign her new book) and the return of the Cartoon Caption Contest Game, with host, Bob Mankoff and judges, Emily Flake, Paul Noth and
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