Fall Covers: Despite the pandemic, mother nature continues on doing her thing. There’s something reassuring about that (some of the best New Yorker covers have appeared this time of year). Back in 1984 the magazine’s seasonal covers inspired a gallery show and an accompanying book, Seasons At The New Yorker. Besides J.C. Suares’s September 23, 1974 cover that appears on
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The National Cartoonists Society Festival, Online & Free To All Usually an invitation-only formal event held in a convention center, this year’s NCS Festival will be online and open to all. Live streaming begins Saturday morning at 10am (est), September 12th. Here’s the schedule. Browsing the event schedule and list of nominees I noticed these New Yorker folks mentioned: Jason
Read moreVideo Of Interest: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell From CLTV, August 20, 2020, “Finding The Funny With New Yorker Cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell” — this hour long video with Ms. Campbell talking about “comedy and creativity.” Ms. Campbell began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017. Visit her website here. ____________________________________________________________________________ A Whole Lot Of Booth Info From Toonz, August
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Off The Spill’s Shelves: People, Books & Book People Here’s a really fun read, published in 1980. Short interviews with a ton of folks, as you see by the list (shown below) on the back cover. My initial interest in this book was that it included New Yorker contributors such as Renata Adler, John McPhee, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John
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