Sharp-eyed New Yorker cartoon followers will notice that the magazine recently ran two Bat-Signal drawings: one by Danny Shanahan in this most recent issue, and one last week by Ben Schwartz. A quick glance at the magazine’s Cartoon Bank archive turned up only two previous efforts, but I have a feeling
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Tom Toro on Pencils…and More Spills
A Case For Pencils is visited by Tom Toro this week. Check it out! Link here to Mr. Toro’s website. _______________________________________________________________________ …Mike Lynch celebrates the 99th birthday of Virgil Partch aka VIP… …Two pieces on The New York Review of Books new New York Review Comics, including titles by Abner
Read moreNew Yorker’s Remnick on the Radio
Coming in just a few days (the 25th of October): The New Yorker Radio Hour. Read all about it here (and yes, there’ll be some cartoon/cartoonists content) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ …From the What’re the Odds Department: In this week’s New Yorker (the issue of October 26th): two drawings based on lamp pull-cords (the drawings are by Tom Toro
Read moreTom Toro @ Litquake Tonight!; Andy Friedman’s Catskills Bungalow Slide Show
Tom Toro makes an appearance tonight at Litquake. Link here to the LitQuake site for info. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From newyorker.com, October 10, 2015, “Closing Down the Bungalow” — this charming illustrated piece by Andy Friedman (who has published cartoons in The New Yorker under the name Larry Hat). Mr. Friedman’s website.
Read moreTom Toro on His Second Time Around Doing The Daily…and His New Website; Kaamran Hafeez Begins The Daily
Tom Toro (left) has handed off The New Yorker‘s Daily Cartoon to Kaamran Hafeez. I asked Tom, who has now done the Daily twice, how it was for him the second time around. Here’s what he said: The evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with Daily ‘Toons. And coffee. That too. It was
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