The Kenosha (Wisconsin) Festival of Cartooning is almost upon us (September 15 – 17). Three days of presentations as well as an exhibit of original work by over 30 artists, including the likes of Helen Hokinson*, Liza Donnelly, Trina Robbins, Isabella Bannerman, Rina Piccolo, Maria Scrivan, Hilda Terry, Ramona Fradon, Jen Sorensen & Hilary Price. Details here. *bolded names are
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Harold Ross’s Last Cartoonist: Dana Fradon
By the late 1940s, Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s legendary founder and first editor, had assembled either by happy accident or design (depending on which version of the magazine’s history you want to believe) a stable of magazine cartoonists unrivaled in American publishing. Some have called that era of the magazine’s cartoons its Golden Age. The guiding forces of the
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