So Much To See I recently came across this Facebook page of Thurber photos while Thurber surfing on the www. I’ve never seen so many hitherto unseen (by me) Thurber covers before (there’s other stuff here too, but book jackets are in the majority). A real treat. Mixed in among the more familiar book jackets are plenty of foreign
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Let The Pre-Laughing Begin: Joe Dator’s “Inked” An advance copy of Joe Dator’s Inked has arrived in the mail. The book’s not out til October, so in the spirit of pre-ordering (which I hope Spill visitors will do), I’m pre-laughing. This is not a review of Mr. Dator’s book (the Spill doesn’t review colleagues’ books) — not a review, but
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Daily Shouts Today’s Daily Shouts: from the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, “So You Want To Be A New Yorker Cartoonist”* it features drawings by Evan Lian (who did the caricature of Ms. Allen you see here), Hilary Campbell, J.A.K., Victor Varnado, Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Kendra Allenby, Ellis Rosen, and Navied Mahdavian. *the ‘So’ part of the piece’s title
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New ToonStack: “Cartoons That Predicted The Future” From ToonStack, a gathering of (mostly) New Yorker contributors, this latest post: “Cartoons That Predicted The Future” This week’s New Yorker artists are: Ellis Rosen, Amy Kurzweil, J.A.K., Navied Mahdavian, Ali Solomon, and Victor Varnado. ________________________________________________________________________ Latest Cartoon Pad Guest: Victoria Roberts Victoria Roberts is the guest on the brand new episode of
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