From The New York Review of Magazines, this piece celebrating Edward Koren’s 50th year of contributing to The New Yorker
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All Cartoonists Are Actors
“If I’m drawing a certain type of character, I try to get into the spirit of the thing – and my wife complains about the faces I make while I’m working. All cartoonists, I guess, are actors in a way.” — George Price to Jud Hurd, Cartoonist Profiles, March 1975 If you can find it, Jud Hurd’s Price interview
Read moreOtto Soglow’s Little King: “He just happened.”
Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow & The Little King (IDW Publishing, 2012) Introduction by Ivan Brunetti Foreward by Jared Gardner What’s not to like about this handsome volume? If I had my way every cartoonist of note would celebrated thusly: beautifully reproduced work (both black & white and color), with a thorough and informed foreward. Mr. Gardner takes us
Read moreIn Good Company: a look at the cartoons in Al Ross’s New Yorker debut issue
The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
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