Cartoon Companion is back with their deep-ish takes on every cartoon in the latest issue of the New Yorker (May 28, 2018). Charlie Hankin is awarded the CC’s “Top Toon” ribbon. Read it here! Mr. Hankin has been contributing to The New Yorker since August of 2013. Link to his website here. ____________________________________________________________ Fave Photo of the Day Five New
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Addams Drawing Sells for $31,000; Leighton’s Puzzle Pieces; An Interview with Snowman Expert, and “World’s Greatest Bookstores” Author, Bob Eckstein; An Interview with Jeremy Nguyen
Charles Addams Drawing Sells For $31,000. The wonderful Charles Addams drawing shown above sold for $31, 200.00 at last week’s Swann Galleries auction. Wowzers. Oddly, as befits anything having to do with Mr. Addams, the Swann catalog incorrectly stated the date of publication (Swann says it was published in the January 18, 1947 New Yorker). It was actually published in
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists Gather for Cartoon Bank Event
Just a few days after a gathering of New Yorker cartoonists in Brooklyn (for the Not Ok exhibit) there was another gathering — this one last night at 1 World Trade Center. Conde Nast, The New Yorker’s parent company hosted at get-together to introduce its new Cartoon Bank team to the artists. In the photo above from left to right:
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of September 11, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. We’ve come to expect, in these modern New Yorker times, that the cover will likely be a graphic comment on the biggest news of the week, and so it is with this new issue, featuring Chris Ware’s reflection on Hurricane Harvey.
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