New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen At The Reuben Awards Emma Allen, front and center, holding a box of cartoon submissions, appears on this promotional piece by Ed Steckley for the National Cartoonists Society 77th Reuben Awards. Ms. Allen will be part of a panel discussion, moderated by New Yorker
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Liza Donnelly’s “History Of the New Yorker Cartoon” At The 92NY New Yorker historian (Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists), and long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly, will be teaching two classes at the 92NY (formerly the 92nd St. Y) next week and the following. Link here to Register.
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The NYTs On Barbara Shermund: “Overlooked No More” Hurray for Barbara Shermund! The paper of record has finally got around to noting her life and work. The first Barbara Shermund obit — at least as far as I’ve been able to discover — was the notice, above left, published September 9, 1978. I found it online years ago in
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A Gem From The Great Al Ross Looking through the most recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume (the Louisville Public Library’s loss, our gain) of New Yorkers from May through June of 1978, I came across this terrific drawing by the late great Al Ross. I surely studied this drawing back in that first week in May
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