King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate, due in November from IDW Publishing (they’re the folks who brought us the fabulous Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and The Little King), this looks to be a must have for every cartoon library. Do Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters, syndicated briefly by King in the 1930s, make an appearance? We’ll
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Eustace Tilley Bids Adieu, Again
Eustace Tilley (via Bruce McCall) bids adieu to Times Square on the cover of this week’s New Yorker. The magazine begins work in its new headquarters at 1 World Trade this week. The New Yorker’s top-hatted mascot bid goodbye once before, back in August of 1937, when Otto Soglow gave us Tilley, not
Read moreThe Washington Post’s Charles Barsotti Obit; Washington Post’s Michael Cavna on Barsotti;
From The Washington Post, June 18, 2014, “Charles Barsotti, New Yorker Cartoonist known for his simplicity, dies at 80” From Michael Cavna’s Washington Post blog, Comic Riffs, “RIP Charles Barsotti: New Yorker Artist was ‘master cartoonist, a true original, and a nice guy, to boot.’”
Read moreCharles Barsotti: 1933 – 2014
Terribly sad news has just arrived here: the great New Yorker cartoonist, Charles Barsotti has passed away at his home in Kansas City. Mr. Barsotti, whose work was often mentioned in the same breath as Otto Soglow’s and James Thurber’s because of his spare melodic ink line, was a contributor to The New Yorker since 1962, and had been
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