Out today is Richard Gehr’s I Only Read It for the Cartoons (New Harvest), a collection of interviews with the following: Lee Lorenz, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, George Booth, Edward Koren, Charles Barsotti, Arnie Levin, Victoria Roberts, Gahan Wilson, Jack Ziegler, Zach Kanin, and Bob Mankoff. A wonderful addition to any cartoon library.
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Washington Post’s Q&A with Liza Donnelly
“Tonight’s Thurber Prize: New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly Strikes Apt Chords with “Women on Men” (September 30, 2014)–The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna talks to Liza Donnelly. Further reading: From Media Bistro’s Galley Cat: “Debut Novelist John Kenney Wins Thurber Prize for American Humor”
Read moreA Season of Applause for New Yorker Artists
I can’t remember a time when New Yorker artists have been so honored and acknowledged. Three memoirs by the magazine’s contributors hit the New York Times Best Seller list: Mimi Pond’s Over Easy, Bob Mankoff’s How About Never? Is Never Good for
Read moreNew Yorker Festival: Two Cartoonists & A Panel on Steinberg
The New Yorker Festival program has been up on their website for a few days. Besides the panel on Saul Steinberg (“One Hundred Years of Saul Steinberg”) mentioned here the other day, there’ll be a conversation between Bob Mankoff and Roz Chast, both of whom have published memoirs this year: Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and Mankoff’s
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