Early Release: Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Danny Shanahan; Daily Shouts: Becky Barnicoat; More Fave Photos With Roz Chast, Patty Marx, Emily Flake, Sam Gross, Drew Friedman; More Harry Bliss/Steve Martin

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.  _________________ 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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Books On The Horizon; Reviewed: The Ultimate Cartoon Book Of Book Cartoons; Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly In Cuba; New Cartoon Collection Of Interest: Kaamran Hafeez

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

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A Thurber Scarf; Book Event Of Interest: Marx, Chast, And Flake; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Lucas Adams

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

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Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Jason Adam Katzenstein; Rejected! With JAK And Jeremy Nguyen; More Mort (Gerberg); Another Side Of…Tim Hamilton

Today’s Daily cartoon — Spring-centric — is by Jason Adam Katzenstein (aka JAK).  Mr. Katzenstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014.  ____________________________ Rejected! With JAK and Jeremy Nguyen This coming Sunday, March 24th,  JAK and Jeremy Nguyen are part of a night “celebrating rejection.” All the info here.  Mr. Nguyen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.

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