If you haven’t gotten around to thumbing through a copy of Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist, the New Yorker‘s website has posted an excerpt along with two slideshows: one of Arno’s Whoops Sisters and a second spanning Arno’s (non-Whoops Sisters) work for the magazine .
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When Great Cartoonists Think Alike; Audio: WAMC’s Arno interview
Attempted Bloggery takes a closer look at two similar but different cartoons by two very different cartoonists, Peter Arno and Otto Soglow. Read it here. __________________________________________________________________________________________ And speaking of Peter Arno, here’s an audio link to an Arno interview conducted this morning by Joe Donahue on WAMC, a Northeast Public Radio station.
Read moreNote: An Arno Reading in New Jersey
Another missive from the Department of Self-Promotion: I’ll be returning to my home state of New Jersey on Thursday for an Arno book event. Here’s Jim Beckerman’s piece from The Record prefacing the appearance.
Read moreOut Today! Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist
Finally! My thanks to Karen Green of Columbia University for last night’s wonderful send-off for Arno at Butler Library. And thanks too to Edward Sorel for co-piloting the program with me. A big thank you to all who attended, including those from my New Yorker family: Roxie Munro,
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