The Cover: I see destructive tourists at the core of this cover, yet destruction doesn’t come up in Joost Swarte’s interview with The New Yorker‘s art director, Francoise Mouly. Odd? The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Almost a theme issue, of sorts: Amy Hwang (cats), Roz Chast (dogs), Farley Katz (flamingos), Joe Duffy (pigs), Kendra Allenby (deer), Frank Cotham (a snake), Shannon
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Robert Crumb And Aline Kominsky-Crumb At Columbia This Fall; The Tilley Watch Online, July 15-19, 2019; Fave Photo Of The Day: Some New Yorker Folks At The San Diego Comic Con; NYTs Opinion Piece Of Interest: “The Vicious Fun Of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle”
Robert Crumb And Aline -Kominsky Crumb At Columbia This Fall Columbia University’s Curator For Comics and Cartoons, Karen Green, announced at the San Diego Comic Com that Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Peter Bagge will be appearing this Fall at Columbia University…no further info at the moment. Here’s the article from The Beat, July 20, 2019, “Things Go Off
Read moreThurber’s “Mile And A Half Of Lines” Launched; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: More Spills: …Graphic Mueller Reports…Liza Donnelly On Compassion
Thurber’s “Mile And A Half Of Lines” Launched This must-have book takes wing today with an event in Thurber’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Read about it here. Related: A Thurber piece in the CSM, July 11, 2019, “The not-so-secret life of James Thurber” [full disclosure: both my wife, Liza Donnelly, and I contributed to A Mile and a Half of
Read moreBook On The Horizon: Tom Gauld’s Mind-Blowing Theories; De Seve’s Two Right Feet; Shannon Wheeler’s Deleted Trump Tweets Etsy Offering; Case For Pencils Spotlights Mary Lawton; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Coming in April 2020, from Drawn & Quarterly, Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by New Yorker cover artist, Tom Gauld. More info here from the publisher. Mr. Gauld’s most recent New Yorker cover below right. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Peter De Seve’s Two Left Feet Check out Peter De Seve’s hot dog guy’s left foot. Here’s a short piece on Mr.
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