Barry Blitt Talks New Yorker Covers Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show is chock-full of Mr. Roth’s interviews with New Yorker contributors (weighted heavily with folks from the art and cartoon departments). His latest interviewee is Barry Blitt, whose anthology is just out today (Blitt, Riverhead Books). Hear the podcast here, and don’t forget to check out the list of Mr.
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Podcast of Interest: Gil Roth Interviews Shannon Wheeler; Fave Photo: Liza Donnelly In the New York Yankees Dugout with Shortstop, Didi Gregorius; R.C. Harvey’s Out-of-the-Vault Interview with Playboy’s Former Cartoon Editor, Michelle Urry; Radio Interview: Roz Chast
Podcast of Interest: Gil Roth Interviews Shannon Wheeler Gil Roth continues his wonderful series of cartoonist interviews with Too Much Coffee Man’s Shannon Wheeler. Hear it here. — thanks to Attempted Bloggery‘s Stephen Nadler for bringing this to my attention (check out his site for recent posts on two auction pieces: an Arnold Roth drawing and a Charles Addams pencil
Read morePodcast of Interest: Playboy Laughs Author, Patty Farmer
As mentioned here the other day, there’s a brand new book about Playboy humor; the subtitle of Playboy Laughs is The Comedy, Comedians and Cartoons of Playboy. From this past August, here’s Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show interview with the author, Patty Farmer. — thanks to my colleague Bob Eckstein for reminding me about this Virtual Memories episode.
Read moreAn Arnie Levin Interview; Never Judge A Cartoon Collection By Its Cover
An Arnie Levin Interview In this latest installment of Gil Roth’s remarkable string of interviews with cartoonists and illustrators, he speaks with the great Arnie Levin, whose drawings and covers are in league with some of the best the New Yorker has published. Below: a classic Levin drawing from the issue of October 5, 1998. Hear the interview
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