In one of those million-to-one cartoon moments, both my colleague Harry Bliss (with his collaborator Steve Martin) and I have similar drawings out this week (his in his syndicated daily spot, and mine in The New Yorker). What’s unusual, besides the timing of publication, and the peacock standing in a doorway in both drawings, is the use of the peacock
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Darrin Bell Wins Pulitzer For Editorial Cartooning; The Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of April 22, 2019; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Elisabeth McNair; Bliss & Martin, Cont’d
Darrin Bell Wins Pulitzer For Editorial Cartooning From The Washington Post, April 15, 2019, “How the Trayvon Martin tragedy led to Darrin Bell’s historical editorial cartooning Pulitzer.” Mr. Bell began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Link to his website here. (Above: Mr. Bell, and one of his New Yorker cartoons, published July 9, 2018) _____________________ The Cover: Loveis
Read moreA Steve Martin & Harry Bliss Collaboration; The Tilley Watch Online, March 17-22, 2019
A Steve Martin & Harry Bliss Collaboration Slipped onto newyorker.com late in the day yesterday was the above Bonus Daily cartoon. Sharp-eyed readers will note that the drawing is co-authored: Bliss/Martin. I asked Harry Bliss if his collaborator was indeed the Steve Martin, and if so, how it came to be that they worked together. Mr. Bliss responded in an
Read moreJoe Dator on Drawing Creepy Cat Faces, Cartoon Rubber Ducks and Much Much More
(Above: a detail from Joe Dator’s “How We Do It” — it appeared in The New Yorker, September 24, 2012) Each New Yorker cartoonist brings something different to the pages of the magazine – it’s sort of an unofficial requirement for arriving. Some are more
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