A Page ‘O’ Flakes on Attempted Bloggery
From Attempted Bloggery, May 3, 2019, “Emily Flake Drew These”
A charming page of sketches by Ms. Flake via Stephen Nadler’s always enjoyable blog.
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The Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon
A tribute to “Star Wars” actor, Peter Mayhew from Avi Steinberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2012.
A round-up of the week’s online New Yorker cartoonists…
The Daily Cartoonists: P.C. Vey, Barry Blitt (a Bonus Daily), David Sipress, Danny Shanahan, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Elisabeth McNair.
Daily Shouts (by New Yorker cartoonists): Liana Finck, Becky Barnicoat, and a trio effort by Amy Kurzweil, J.A.K., and Ellis Rosen.
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Attempted Bloggery Celebrates Its 2900th Post
Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery celebrates his site’s 2900th post with a look at his signed (and sometimes drawned(?)) copies of Bob Eckstein’s Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons. See it all here.
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A Correction: In yesterday’s post concerning the Daily Shouts trio of Amy Kurzweil, J.A.K. and Ellis Rosen, I suggested that the trio effort may have been a Shouts first.
There was at least one previous trio: the July 20, 2018 Shouts by Sharon Levy, Olivia de Recat, and Lars Kenseth. My thanks to my colleague, Jeremy Nguyen for bringing this to my attention.
Early Release of Next Week’s New Yorker Cover: Bob Staake’s “Our Lady”
The cover artist Bob Staake has posted his cover for next week’s issue.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Danny Shanahan
A Peeps of the jungle by Mr. Shanahan, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. See his work here on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site.
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A Daily Shouts by Becky Barnicoat
Somehow missed Becky Barnicoat’s Daily Shouts piece yesterday….see it here. Ms. Barnicoat’s first New Yorker cartoon appears in this week’s issue. ________________
More Fave Photos
Book Event at Shakespeare & Co.
Above: Roz Chast and co-author, Patty Marx at Tuesday night’s event at Shakespeare & Co.
(Photo courtesy of Marcie Jacobs-Cole).
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American Bystander Panel at New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium
Above: From last night’s New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium with panelists (l-r), Sam Gross, Steve Young, Drew Friedman, Emily Flake, and Steve Kroninger. The fellow behind the podium is The American Bystander‘s guiding light, Michael Gerber.
(photos courtesy of Stephen Nadler (Attempted Bloggery)
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…More Bliss/Martin: From Vermont’s Seven Days, April 17, 2019, “Cartoonist Harry Bliss Collaborates with Comedian Steve Martin.”
…Roz Chast to speak in Dallas April 26th.
Two books to look forward to within the next twelve months… both series-esque. No graphics for either yet.
In January of 2020, the team of Patricia Marx and Roz Chast return with You Can Only Yell At Me For One Thing At A Time: Rules For Couples. From Celadon Books, also publisher of the just released Marx-Chast collaboration).
And in October of this year, from Princeton Architectural Press, the second Ultimate Cartoon collection, edited by Bob Eckstein: Everyone’s A Critic: More Cartoons By The World’s Greatest Cartoonists.
Speaking of the Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons, here’s a review from The Columbus Dispatch.
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Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly In Cuba
Ms. Donnelly, a New Yorker cartoonist since 1982, seems of late to always be in some other place. This week she’s in Cuba as a jurist for Cuba’s International Humor Festival. She’s shown above, third from left, with fellow jurists standing in front of the Museo Del Humor in San Antonio.
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New Cartoon Collection of Interest: Kaamran Hafeez
This title escaped my attention until this afternoon (thanks to Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery for letting me know). It came out just a few weeks ago, published by Authorhouse.
Mr. Hafeez began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. Link to his website here.
From Attempted Bloggery, this Thurber “lawn scarf” — Read about it here!
Thurber’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
James Thurber (pictured above) Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. A short bio appears on the Thurber House website: http://www.thurberhouse.org/about-james-thurber/
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Book Event of interest: Marx, Chast, and Flake
Continuing their book tour for Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? New Yorker contributors Patricia Marx and Roz Chast will be at Books Are Magic on April 2nd. They’ll be joined by New Yorker cartoonist, Emily Flake (my thanks to Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery for alerting me to this event).
(Above, l-r: Marx, Chast, Flake)
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon
Lucas Adams is today’s Daily cartoonist with a waking Mr. Met.
