An upcoming issue of The Comics Journal featuring an interview with Pia Guerra coupled with her recent appearance on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (along with her writing partner, Ian Boothby) has caused me to think a little this morning about the relatively modern jump in “dedicated” and public partnerships in The New Yorker‘s cartoonist stable. In the podcast, Ms.
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Event Of Interest: Sara Lautman And Liza Donnelly At Politics & Prose Sara Lautman (below, left) will join Liza Donnelly at Politics & Prose, March 18th, to kick off the release of Ms. Donnelly’s new expanded edition of her must-have Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists. All the info here. __________________________________________ Pia Guerra & Ian Boothby On The
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Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Guest: Victoria Roberts This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast guest is the terrif Victoria Roberts, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. Listen here. Visit her website here. _____________________________________________________________ Liza Donnelly On Live-Drawing “Succession” From Medium, December 14, 2021, “Drawing Horrible People” — long-time New Yorker contributor Liza Donnelly (her first New Yorker
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Nuts The Cartoonists: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There’s one duo in this issue that we know of: Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski). There’s also a newbie, Teresa Wong, who
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