The brand new New Yorker (March 10, 2014) features what I believe to be an unprecedented single issue contribution by a cartoonist: a dozen pages, in color. The piece, by Roz Chast, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” is also the title of her forthcoming graphic memoir (coming in May from Bloomsbury USA. The cover appears to the
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New New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt.3: Charlie Hankin
This is third part of an Ink Spill series looking at newer New Yorker cartoonists. I asked three of the most recent additions to the magazine’s stable of artists to tell us a little about themselves and how it was they ended up at The New Yorker (previously we heard from Liana Finck and Edward Steed). The series wraps up
Read moreNew New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 1: Liana Finck
Thirty or forty years ago, a new cartoonist published in The New Yorker was about as rare as The New Yorker messing with its fabled Irvin typeface. That’s changed in recent years, as more and more cartoonists are embraced by the magazine. In the upcoming documentary film, Very Semi-Serious, Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker‘s current cartoon editor, says,
Read morePublisher Posts a Sneak Peek at Mankoff Memoir; Chast on 92nd St. & on Living in Connecticut
Publisher Henry Holt & Company has posted a short slide show of pages from the forthcoming memoir by New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff. The website page also contains a one minute and fifteen second audio clip of Mr. Mankoff discussing his book. (How About Never — Is Never Good For You? is due March 24th)
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