Seven New Yorker Cartoonists Walk Into a Book Barn In my hundreds of visits to the always interesting Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York I’d never walked in with six other New Yorker cartoonists…until yesterday. The Book Barn’s owner, Maureen Rodgers allowed us to sort of take over the place as we browsed and talked and generally hung
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Seth Returns to The Virtual Memories Show; A Tune Jokes Cover; Now That’s What I Call Marketing…
New Yorker cover artist, Seth (Gregory Gallant) returns to Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories podcast. Hear it here. And while you’re there check out Mr. Roth’s archive of interviews with other cartoonists, including, among others, these New Yorker contributors: Edward Koren, Roz Chast, Sam Gross, Liza Donnelly, R.O. Blechman, Peter Kuper, and John Cuneo. ____________________________________________________________________________ We have not heard
Read moreA Memorial For Peter Porges; Early Gahan Wilson
There will be a memorial service on June 29th for Mad Magazine and New Yorker artist, Peter Porges who passed away in December of last year. Mr. Porges’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of July 3, 1965. Sam Gross has passed along the details: Peter Porges Memorial Service Thursday, June 29th Ethical Culture Society
Read moreVideo of Interest: From 1997, ABC’s Nightline Looks at the New Yorker’s Cartoonists; Sam Gross on Jack Ziegler; The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna on Jack Ziegler’s Pivotal Role at The New Yorker
Way way back in December 1997, ABC’s Nightline broadcast “Drawing Laughter: the Cartoonists of The New Yorker” devoting its entire half-hour time slot to New Yorker cartoons and especially, its cartoonists. The video from ABC’s vault takes us back to the Tina Brown era, the beginning of Bob Mankoff‘s tenure as cartoon editor (he’d only been at the big desk
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