Audio Interview of Interest: Tom Toro; Cradling Esky

From the radio station, KCUR, “For Kansas City Cartoonist ‘The New Yorker‘ Meant Success — Even After Hundreds of Tries” — this interview with Tom Toro, whose book, Tiny Hands, is out this month. Link here to Mr. Toro’s website. Link here to his publisher’s website.   ____________________________________________________________________ Follow-up: Here’s an Instagram photo of Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker‘s former

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Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated; Tom Toro Talks Trump; Messing Around With The New Yorker’s Logo

              In the latest installment of The Cartoon Companion:  Ed Steed’s fowl: chickens or ducks?…plus Dernavich’s refrigerator, Cotham’s stairway to heaven, and more. _______________________________________________________________________________ Tom Toro has been drawing a lot of Trumps lately.  He talks about the experience on the Huffington Post: “New Yorker Cartoonist Explains Why Humor is the Heartbeat of Democracy”

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