New Yorker Cartoonists Gather to Honor Jack Ziegler

  Cartoon colleagues gathered yesterday at the Society of Illustrators to honor one of the New Yorker‘s cartoon gods, Jack Ziegler, who passed away this March.  Shown above, back row, left – right: Trevor Hoey, John Donohue, Robert Leighton, Tom Toro (in profile), George Booth, David Borchart (standing tall over Mr. Toro and Mr. Booth), Anne Hall Elser (Ms. Elser

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Think Good Thoughts About an Exhibition: George Booth Show Coming to The Society of Illustrators in the Fall

This Fall the Society of Illustrators  will  exhibit work by one of the New Yorker’s greatest artists, George Booth. Mr. Booth’s daughter, Sarah Booth,  told Ink Spill that besides the hanging art “there  will also be video and pictures and [a concentration] on George’s process, how he worked with cut and paste to the final cartoon.”  More information will be

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Blitt and Kuper on Society of Illustrators Panel; Gil Roth Roth Interviews Glen Baxter; Another Look at Abner Dean; Felipe Galindo In Conference on Political Satire in Latin America; A Case For Pencils’ Pencils

    Last Minute Notice! “Can Art Affect Social Change?”  Barry Blitt and Peter Kuper, among others, will discuss tonight at The Society of Illustrators.  Details here ____________________________________________________________________ Check out Gil Roth’s wonderful interview with Glen Baxter on Mr. Roth’s Virtual Memories podcast here. (Mr. Baxter talks about coming to The New Yorker in the Robert Gottlieb era). While on

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