George Booth At The Society of Illustrators; Columbia University Panel with Emily Flake, Tom Toro, Robert Sikoryak, and Emma Allen

  “Mister Hiucappi believes animals should be kept out-of-doors all year round.” A Must:  “An Evening With George Booth” at The Society of Illustrators, November 8th. All the info here. Here’s Mr. Booth’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: George Booth (photo above taken in NYC 2016, courtesy of Liza Donnelly) Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. NYer work: 1969 –

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Cuneo’s Klam Drawings; Sikoryak Illustrates Trumpisms; Finck Covers Closet and a Novel

Cuneo’s Klam Drawings What fun! New Yorker cover artist and illustrator, John Cuneo, has supplied illustrations for Matthew Klam’s latest book, Who Is Rich?: A Novel ;  what’s fun, besides Mr. Cuneo’s work — called “…darkly humorous…” in The Washington Post’s  review of the book — is that the novel’s main character is a…cartoonist.         Here’s how the

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Book of Interest: Best American Comics 2016

                                          Coming in October from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  is this latest entry in a series that includes Travel, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Sports Writing, etc.. This year’s edition merits special mention because Roz Chast is the guest editor.  Jules Feiffer

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