Rich Sparks Guests On The Caption Contest Podcast –Screen grab, clockwise from top left: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Rich Sparks. Rich Sparks is this week’s guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. In this episode the “Ten A Week” faux commandment comes up yet again! Listen to the Rich Sparks episode here. Mr. Sparks began
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Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks From The Chicago Tribune, December 1, 2020, “Rich Sparks Does Drawings That Make People Laugh, And Sometimes Cringe. How’d You like A Hand Sandwich?” — this piece on Mr. Sparks who began contributing to The New Yorker in April of 2016. Visit his website here. His latest book is Love And Other Weird Things __________________________________________________________________
Read moreThe latest American Bystander (March 2020) has landed on my desk — it’s a treat! Here are The New Yorker cartoonists whose contributions you’ll find in the issue (and in the case of John Cuneo, on the issue’s cover): George Booth (besides a full-page Booth drawing there’s a lovely photo of Mr. Booth on the very last page), Roz Chast
Read morePeter Kuper’s New York Times Silent Spring Piece From The New York Times Book Review, this graphic review of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring by Peter Kuper, who’s on a roll this week — he also has a full page color Comic Strip in The New Yorker. (read a little about it here at The Daily Cartoonist; a link is supplied
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