In the past week I’ve mentioned two New Yorker cartoon gods, Charles Addams and Edward Koren — here are a few thoughts on another: Saul Steinberg. I admit to not paying enough attention to Joel Smith’s Steinberg At The New Yorker when it came out in 2005. Perhaps, at the time, I was in the early stages of being Steinberged-out.
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Steinberg’s 100th to be Celebrated at The New Yorker Festival
The 100th anniversary of Saul Steinberg’s birth (he was born June 15, 1914, and died May 12, 1999) will be celebrated at the upcoming New Yorker Festival as well as other venues in and around New York (and later in the year, across the seas). Here’s the online notice on newyorker.com by Ian Frazier. And here’s a link
Read moreShanahan & Donnelly’s Online Cartoon Collection; Joe Farris Exhibition; Victoria Roberts Draws at NYC’s Strand Bookstore; Bruce Kaplan’s new show; Chast & Popeye; More Steinberg
From The Huffington Post, December 21, 2012, this online only collection of cartoons by Danny Shanahan and Liza Donnelly for Moms Clean Air Force. From CTpost. com, December 18, 2012, “New Yorker artist’s work on view in Bethel” –This post on long time New Yorker contributor, Joe Farris From the blog, East Village, December 19, 2012,
Read moreSteinberg Biography out this month; Video: Watch Donnelly Draw
Out on the 20th of this month from Nan A. Talese is Deirdre Bair’s Saul Steinberg: A Biography. (see your favorite online bookseller for more details). From Publishers Weekly Review: “The pre-eminent New Yorker cartoonist leads a life worthy of his own ironic art in this scintillating biography … Steinberg emerges as a tangle of neurotic contradictions … Bair’s long
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