On Youtube, Sempe: dessinateur d’humor — a nearly hour long documentary on the great New Yorker cartoonist/cover artist. Interesting to watch, and probably even better if you speak French. — My thanks to the fab New Yorker cover artist, John Cuneo for bringing this to my attention. Sempe began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978. ____________________________________________________________________________ Maira Kalman Illustrates
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The Wednesday Tilley Watch: Interview Of Interest: Liana Finck; Cuneo At The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Interview Of Interest: Liana Finck From Publishers Weekly, February 25, 2020, “Liana Finck on Pop-up Magazine and Taking Her Cartoons To the Stage” Ms. Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. _____________________________________________________________ John Cuneo At The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium A crowded room last night at the New School for John
Read moreAll New Yorker Cartoons Are New Yorker Drawings But Not All New Yorker Drawings Are New Yorker Cartoons; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s)
In a fun February 22nd 2020 post on The Daily Cartoonist celebrating the first appearance of James Thurber’s drawings in The New Yorker (shown above), the post’s author D.D. Degg wrote this: There seems to be some disagreement over whether the above drawings constitute cartoons. A New Yorker State of Mind, where the above screenshot comes from, calls them cartoons;
Read moreEarly Release! Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
As we’ve seen, from time-to-time The New Yorker likes to rush release a cover (new issues are usually published online very early Monday morning). Above is next week’s effort by Barry Blitt. ____________________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Peter Kuper on Washington conspiracy theories. Mr. Kuper has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2011. Visit his website here. His
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