Click here to see the new Cartoon Companion where you’ll find a considered (and rated) assessment of all the cartoons in the latest New Yorker. As usual, a Mystery Cartoonist is along for the fun. You’ll also run across an un-mysterious me prattling on about my drawing in this issue, which began life, Thurber-ish, with a seal
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R.C. Harvey’s Trip Down Mankoff Lane
From The Comics Journal, March 27, 2017, “A Look Back at 20 Years of Mankoff’s New Yorker” — R.C. Harvey takes a look at Bob Mankoff’s not-quite 20 year term (August of 1997 – April of 2017) as The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor in this longish piece that covers much ground found in Mankoff’s memoir, How About Never — Is
Read moreKatchor Interviewed; Sikoryak’s Carousel with Eckstein & Kuper
From The Comics Journal, October 19, 2016, “Getting Material: A Short Interview with Ben Katchor” Link here to Mr. Katchor’s website. ____________________________________________________________________ Bob Eckstein and Peter Kuper are included in Robert Sikoryak’s October 26th Carousel . Info here and on the poster.
Read moreA Comics Journal Interview with Glen Baxter
From The Comics Journal, July 22, 2016, “I Never Thought of Myself as a Cartoonist: A Glen Baxter Interview” — Emily Flake talks to Mr. Baxter on the occasion of the release of his new book, Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings (New York Review Comics). Mr. Baxter’s work first appeared in The New Yorker May 8th 1989
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