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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A Fave Photo From the Ink Spill Vault

    Here’s a photo taken back in 2005 at the old Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) headquarters on Broadway in Soho (MoCCA now resides within the walls of The Society of Illustrators). Left to right: Gahan Wilson, Roz Chast, Barbara Smaller, P.C. Vey, Liza Donnelly, and Jack Ziegler   Note: Barbara Smaller, Liana Finck and Marisa Acocella

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A Zap Retrospective at The Society of Illustrators

“The ZAP Show: A Cultural Revolution” is now up at The Society of Illustrators (and runs through May 7, 2016).  All the details here. From the website: No one could have known that when struggling illustrator R. Crumb self-published Zap Comix #1 in 1968 and began hawking copies in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, history would be made.  

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