_____________________________________________________________________ Otto Soglow’s Spots The arc of Otto Soglow’s Little King has been well covered in Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow & The Little King (IDW, 2012), but my attempt to find when he began his long berth as
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Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here. Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris
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David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview, Part 2 In Part 2 of my interview with New Yorker cartoonist, David Sipress, whose book, What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonist’s Memoir will be out March 8th, we talk about a dozen or so of David’s New Yorker drawings: where they sprang from, what he was thinking about them at
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Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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