Video Of Interest: Tom Toro In Conversation With Michael Maslin The Hudson Valley’s Panda TV was on hand last week to film Tom Toro and this cartoonist in conversation at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY. Watch here. Tom’s appearance was part of a book tour for his cartoon collection, And To Think We Started As A Book Club… __________________________________________________________________________ The
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A Great Cartoonist…Arnie Levin Arnie Levin, in my humble opinion, is one of the great post-James Geraghty era New Yorker cartoonists. Levin arrived at the magazine in 1974, not long after Lee Lorenz was appointed The New Yorker‘s art editor (back then the art editor’s duties included editing cartoons, covers, spot drawings, and illustrations — in other words: all art).
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An Alajalov Marx Brothers Ad Steve Stoliar, who knows his Marx Brothers, posted this terrif 1931 Monkey Business ad the other day. The artist: Alajalov Alajalov’s A-Z entry: Constantin Alajalov Born Constantin Aladjalov, 1900, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia. Died Oct., 1987, Amenia, New York. New Yorker work: 1926 -1960. Perhaps best known for his New Yorker covers ( he also
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Reminder: Paul Karasik At Rizzoli This Monday Paul Karasik will be speaking about, and signing, Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy this Monday. Mr. Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here. _________________________________________________________ Gretchen Dow Simpson’s New York Times Obit The New York Times has published an obit for Gretchen
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