The Wednesday Watch: Interviews of Interest with Liana Finck and Peter Kuper

Here are three Liana Finck interviews tied into her just released Passing for Human. The first is with fellow New Yorker colleague, Amy Kurzweil: “Two Cartoonists Sit On A Bench And Talk: An Illustrated Interview” And… from The Herald Scotland,  there’s “Graphic Content: Liana Finck On Awkwardness, anxiety. and being a New Yorker Cartoonist” Also… from The Beat: “Interview: Liana

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R.C. Harvey on E. Simms Campbell

From Print, February 24, 2015, “Insider Histories: Pioneering Black Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell” Above: a Campbell drawing from the September 14, 1935 New Yorker.  From 1932 through 1942 Mr. Campbell contributed roughly two dozen cartoons and one cover to the magazine.

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