Pub Day For Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists It’s the “official” pub day for Liza Donnelly’s new edition of her 2005 classic Funny Ladies. This new edition is a must-have for any cartoon-centric library (I’d say that even if I wasn’t married to Ms. Donnelly). This morning I reached out to Ms. Donnelly, currently in Manhattan,
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Early Richter I’ve always thought that the late Mischa Richter’s cartoon roots were heavily influenced by Peter Arno’s work (something he vehemently denied when I interviewed him in 1999).* This early Mischa Richter drawing currently on Ebay is interesting in that it seems to show a Steig influence. The fellow staring at the wall thermometer is right out of William
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Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,
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