According to its official website, Funny Business — An Inside Look at the Art of Cartooning, shown last night on New York’s PBS station WNET, will be rebroadcast this Saturday, May 7th, at 3:30 am. The film pays studio visits to a number of New Yorker cartoonists, including Frank Modell, Lee Lorenz (the former Art Editor/Cartoon Editor of The New
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Booth, Chast, Kalman and Tomine at The Strand
A sure-to-please event at The Strand Bookstore ( 828 Broadway, 2nd Fl.) May 3, 2011, 7 pm — 8 pm, celebrating the winner of the 2011 Eustace Tilley contest and launch of The New Yorker’s Strand tote bag. Francoise Mouly the magazine’s Art Editor, will moderate a panel discussion with George Booth, Roz Chast, Maira Kalman, and Adrian Tomine. Other
Read moreNew Cat at The Algonquin; Bob Mankoff at Rutgers; Interview: Kate Beaton; Interview: Marcellus Hall; Roz Chast speaks
From The Wall Street Journal, this video profiling Matilda III, the latest of a long line of in-house cats residing at The Algonquin Hotel. From mycentraljersey.com, April 4, 2011, this article –“Rutgers presents free April 7 program on Yiddish, Jewish Cartooning” (with The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff). From Sequential Tart, April 4, 2011, this interview with Kate Beaton.
Read moreEd Koren interview; Roz Chast speaks crosswordese
From Vermont Public Radio, March 15, 2011, this post, “Visiting Artists: Cartoonist Ed Koren.” In this twelve minute plus audio interview conducted in Koren’s studio, he speaks of his work and the state of cartoons, which he calls “frozen stories.” ( link found through Comics Journal). And from Mike Lynch’s website, this video of Roz Chast ( scroll down to
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