Victoria Roberts Pencilled; Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art; Seth’s Commencement Address; Philip Roth Jaywalking on West 79th St.

Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils returns with a look at Victoria Roberts’ tools of the trade. See it here! Ms. Roberts began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. _____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art This week Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery looks at items acquired at the MoCCA Fest.  Today it’s John Cuneo‘s Not Waving But Drawing. Read it here.

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The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor on Kanye and the Caption Contest; Commencement Speaker of Interest: Seth; A Favorite Blog; A New Yorker Cover Artist of Interest: Cannaday Chapman

The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor on Kanye and The Caption Contest Read what Emma Allen, the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor has to say about the Kanye Caption Contest thing going on. ______________________________________________________________________ Commencement Speaker of Interest: Seth All the info on the poster above and some more here. __________________________________________________________________________ A Spill Fave Blog: A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading

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New Yorker Pokes Fun; Hoff Week Continues; Sikoryak Heads North to The Center for Cartoon Studies

Last Tuesday’s Daily Cartoon (by Jeremy Nguyen) gets some attention: “New Yorker Pokes Fun at Donald Trump with Google Culture and Arts App” _____________________________________________________________________ Hoff Week Continues at Attempted Bloggery Further obscure Hoff courtesy of Attempted Bloggery. Check it out here! __________________________________________________________________ R. Sikoryak Next Visiting Artist at Center for Cartoon Studies The New Yorker cover artist heads north to

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Paul Karasik Delivers Commencement Speech at the Center For Cartoon Studies; CBS This Morning Podcast: Liza Donnelly Talks About Live-Drawing at The White House; Attempted Bloggery Spotlights An Obscure New Yorker Cartoonist

From Vermont’s Valley News, May 13, 2017, “‘It’s OK to Flounder’: Paul Karasik Advises CCS Grads” — this piece on Mr. Karasik’s commencement speech delivered to the Center for Cartoon Studies  11th graduating class. Link here to Paul Karasik’s New Yorker work. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Here’s a CBS News podcast, “Drawing At The White House”  featuring Liza Donnelly talking about her recent

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