“The Funniest Funeral Ever” Above: Liza Donnelly, and Rick Meyerowitz The f-bombs were flying fast and funnily at cartoonist Sam Gross’s funeral on Thursday. A number of other choice words were delivered in the spirit of celebrating Mr. Gross, who was famous
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Pat Byrnes Guests On The Latest Cartoon Pad Pat Byrnes, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998, chews the fat with New Yorker cartoonist colleagues Michael Shaw and Bob Eckstein. Listen here. Mr. Shaw began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999; Mr. Eckstein in 2007. ________________________________________________________
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The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Has Died Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on Mr. Angell, who died today at age 101. And here’s The New York Times obit, written by Dwight Garner. Here’s a link to Mr. Angell’s wonderful piece on New Yorker cartoons, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby” that appeared in the magazine December 15, 1997: (sorry,
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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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