“If I’m drawing a certain type of character, I try to get into the spirit of the thing – and my wife complains about the faces I make while I’m working. All cartoonists, I guess, are actors in a way.” — George Price to Jud Hurd, Cartoonist Profiles, March 1975 If you can find it, Jud Hurd’s Price interview
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Very late panel notice: Sorel, Munro, Meyerowitz, and Chast; Article/photos: Joe Farris; Gourmet’s Culinary Cartoons
From The Katonah Museum of Art, this post on an event, “The New Yorker’s New York,” being held this evening. It features a panel discussion with Edward Sorel, Rick Meyerowitz, Roxie Munro, and Roz Chast From The Danbury News Times, November 3, 2011, “Bethel’s Farris offers a poignant memoir of World War II” From Gourmet Live, November 2, 2011,
Read moreFunny Business to be rebroadcast May 7th; Video: Chast’s Ant & The Grasshopper
According to its official website, Funny Business — An Inside Look at the Art of Cartooning, shown last night on New York’s PBS station WNET, will be rebroadcast this Saturday, May 7th, at 3:30 am. The film pays studio visits to a number of New Yorker cartoonists, including Frank Modell, Lee Lorenz (the former Art Editor/Cartoon Editor of The New
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists: Photographs by Anne Hall Elser
Take a look at these great photographs of New Yorker cartoonists taken by Anne Hall Elser, a long time editorial staff member of the magazine. The gallery of photos includes Charles Addams, Edward Koren, Arnie Levin, William Steig, P.C. Vey, Roz Chast, James Stevenson, Charles Barsotti, Gahan Wilson, Victoria Roberts, George Price, George Booth, and Ed Arno
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