No New Yorker cartoonist milked the humorous possibilities of (mostly female) total nudity like the late Sam Cobean (an example above), but you wouldn’t know it by the ads below. Mr. Cobean’s two collections, Cobean’s Naked Eye, and The Cartoons of Cobean (arranged and selected by Steinberg, with an Introduction by Mr. Cobean’s good friend, Charles Addams, published posthumously) are easily
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Tom Toro: The Ink Spill Interview
New Yorker cartoonist, Tom Toro and I’ve been emailing now and then over the seven years he’s been contributing cartoons to the magazine, but it wasn’t until a month ago, when he came east from Kansas for Jack Ziegler’s memorial, that we finally met in person and were able to chat for awhile. The idea for an interview had been batted
Read moreSaul Steinberg Blows Into the Windy City
Earlier this year when I ran into my New Yorker cartoonist colleague, Ken Krimstein, one of the first things we talked about was the Steinberg exhibit that had opened in Ken’s hometown, Chicago. I thought it would be interesting to hear what a New Yorker cartoonist thought of the show and Ken graciously agreed to review the exhibit for
Read moreChris Ware Reviews A Saul Steinberg Exhibit: “Along the Lines: Selected Drawings…”
From The New York Review of Books, May 26, 2017, “Saul Steinberg’s View of the World” — this review of the Steinberg exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, “Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg.” A highlight from Ware’s review : “As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little in the show I can steal…”
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