Blog-spottings: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff (newyorker.com): “James Thurber’s Giant Swoop” this piece on James Thurber’s influence on modern cartoonists. Shannon Wheeler has begun posting a cartoon-a-day on his site. Today is day two. From The Passenger Diaries, June 15, 2011, “Drawing Inspiration: Talking with New Yorker Cartoonist Drew Dernavich“ From Thinking About Art, June 14,
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Olbermann, Mankoff and Rosemary Thurber celebrate Thurber; A Soldier’s Sketchbook from Joseph Farris
From Reader’s Almanac, June 13, 2011, “Keith Olbermann, Rosemary Thurber, and friends gather to celebrate Thurber Coming this Fall, A Soldier’s Sketchbook: From the Front Lines of World War II (National Geographic, Nov. 1, 2011) by Joseph Farris. For more information, visit the Random House site
Read moreVideo: How The Talk of The Town is made; Comics Journal Interview: Roz Chast
From newyorker.com, this tongue-in-cheek video explaining how the magazine’s Talk of the Town stories are selected. Appearing are The New Yorker’s Nancy Franklin, Hendrik Hertzberg, Rebecca Mead, Susan Morrison, Nick Paumgarten, Lizzie Widdicombe, and David Remnick. Also appearing is Jonathan Goldsmith, the actor who plays The Most Interesting Man in the World on TV Richard Gehr interviews Roz Chast
Read moreVideo: Mankoff, Sipress
From Youtube, this 25 minute video of an appearance on “CityWide” with David Sipress and The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff.
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