An end of week listing of New Yorker artists (both print and those exclusive to newyorker.com) contributing to online features The Daily Cartoon: Yasin Osman*, J.A.K., Adam Douglas Thompson, Millie von Platen*, Brendan Loper. Daily Shouts: Eugenia Viti (& Ginny Hogan) …and: Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Trump Jumps The Shark” From The Culture Desk, Andy Friedman’s “The Return of Kathleen Edwards”
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The American Bystander’s Michael Gerber Wants To Know; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
The American Bystander’s Michael Gerber Wants To Know Michael Gerber, the fellow behind the wonderful American Bystander is asking if anyone out there knows when the first cartoon caption contest began. Mr. Gerber passed along the one shown below from The Yale Record (I’ve been told it’s from 1918, but I see the artist dated it 1921). So…does
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Peter Kuper’s NYTs Silent Spring Piece; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Liza Donnelly’s World Wildlife Fund Earth Day Drawings; The Weekly Humorist’s Cartoon Desk
Peter Kuper’s New York Times Silent Spring Piece From The New York Times Book Review, this graphic review of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring by Peter Kuper, who’s on a roll this week — he also has a full page color Comic Strip in The New Yorker. (read a little about it here at The Daily Cartoonist; a link is supplied
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: The American Bystander’s Quarantine Calvacade; Film Of Interest: Barsotti: A Cartoonist’s Life; The Tilley Watch Online, April 13-17, 2020
American Bystander’s Cartoon Quarantine Calvacade Michael Gerber, publisher and driving force behind The American Bystander has begun a Cartoon Quarantine Calvacade. He tells the Spill, he began it as an “outlet” for “both the audience and the contributors.” See it here (and subscribe to the Bystander while you’re there!). _______________________________________________________________________ From a 14 year old Kansas filmmaker, Carter Rostrom, this
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