Slide Show of Interest: Liza Donnelly’s Live Drawings for CBS News; Blog of Interest: Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious”; Thurber’s “Many Moons” — the Chinese Edition

Slide Show of Interest: Liza Donnelly’s Live Drawings for CBS News  CBS News has posted a slide show sampler of Liza Donnelly’s work from 2017 (she’s their resident cartoonist).  See it here.  Below: the CBS News Control Room ______________________________________________________________________ Blog of Interest: Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Peter Steiner, the artist and writer who brought us one of the

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The New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975 – 1985

With the publication of The New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975-1985, the word “Cartoon” makes its second appearance on an Album cover and in an Album  title (the first was on the cover of The Album of Sports and Games: Cartoons of Three Decades).  The magazine’s 60th anniversary not only saw this anthology published, but the magazine’s fans were treated to

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Seven New Yorker Cartoonists Walk Into A Book Barn

Seven New Yorker Cartoonists Walk Into a Book Barn   In my hundreds of visits to the always interesting  Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York I’d never walked in with six other New Yorker cartoonists…until yesterday.  The Book Barn’s owner, Maureen Rodgers  allowed us to sort of take over the place as we browsed and talked and generally hung

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Peter Steiner Pencilled; Jeremy Nguyen Profiled

Peter Steiner, who brought us this classic New Yorker cartoon, tells us about his tools of the trade on Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils. Read it here! Link to Peter Steiner’s website.   ________________________________________________________________   Jeremy Nguyen, whose first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker this past February, is the subject of this brief profile in Bedford + Bowery.

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