Article Of Interest: Gahan Wilson From the Sag Harbor Express, March 12, 2019, “A Call For Help For A World-Famous Cartoonist, Formerly Of Sag Harbor” — a good article about the ailing New Yorker cartoonist and the GoFundMe campaign underway to help him. (photo: Mr. Wilson and his late wife, Nancy, with a Gahan Wilson character between them, 1970) ___________________________________
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Cartoon Companion’s Amy Hwang Interview (Pt.1); Columbia University Libraries’ “Comics In the Curriculum”; The Tilley Watch:The New Yorker Festival
Cartoon Companion’s Amy Hwang Interview (Pt.1) Cartoon Companion has expanded its features, offering glimpses of rough drawings and interviews with New Yorker cartoonists. Here’s the latest with Amy Hwang, who began contributing to the magazine in November of 2010. Link here to her website. ___________________________________________________________________ Columbia Universities Libraries’ “Comics in the Curriculum” Karen Green, over at Columbia University, has been
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker, Sept. 4, 2017: The Television Issue
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I can think of no better way to kick-off The New Yorker’s very first “Television Issue” than with a cover by Bruce Eric Kaplan who is in the New Yorker/Television Hall of Fame because he wrote the famous and exceptionally funny
Read moreBob Mankoff visits The Pete Holmes Show
The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff was recently a guest on The Pete Holmes Show. Mr. Holmes, who has contributed cartoons to the magazine, showed Mr. Mankoff a batch of cartoons…including one already bought by The New Yorker. There was a YouTube video of the segment, but sadly, it’s been taken down. However, the
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