Library of Congress Exhibit: Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists From the LOC’s press release: Original works by women cartoonists and illustrators are featured in a new exhibition opening at the Library of Congress on Nov. 18. Spanning the late 1800s to the present, “Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists” brings to light remarkable but little-known
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Liza Donnelly Draws Halloween; Andy Borowitz On His Work: “It’s almost like the verbal equivalent of a New Yorker cartoon”; Tom Toro in The Paris Review; Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 21: Addams for Sani-Flush; Steinberg: Artiste or Cartoonist?
Liza Donnelly Draws Halloween From Liza Donnelly, Halloween drawings for CBS This Morning. See them here. _______________________________________________________________ Andy Borowitz On His Work: “It’s almost like the verbal equivalent of a New Yorker cartoon” From Poynter, October 31, 2017 —“Satirist Andy Borowitz Explains the Fine Art of Lampooning Trump” — the interview by James Warren includes this quote from Mr. Borowitz
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 20: William Steig (Part 3)
We continue with this series of advertising work by New Yorker artists, nearly all of it brought to you via the tireless efforts and generosity of Warren Bernard (when others have contributed it is duly noted). William Steig, one the gods of the New Yorker cartoon world did a lot (a lot) of advertising work. He’s the first in this
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 17: Sam Cobean
No New Yorker cartoonist milked the humorous possibilities of (mostly female) total nudity like the late Sam Cobean (an example above), but you wouldn’t know it by the ads below. Mr. Cobean’s two collections, Cobean’s Naked Eye, and The Cartoons of Cobean (arranged and selected by Steinberg, with an Introduction by Mr. Cobean’s good friend, Charles Addams, published posthumously) are easily
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