It’s always surprising when an ancient New Yorker promotional book shows up online that I’ve never seen before. Such was the case when the below recently turned up on Ebay. Until last week I’d never heard of The Costume That Was A Sensation At Auteuil…But Was Never Seen On Fifth Avenue. An online search produced this Worldcat.org entry: And
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Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon was by veteran New Yorker contributor Liza Donnelly. Ms. Donnelly’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982. Visit her website here. Ms. Donnelly’s must-have book, Very Funny Ladies (with a foreward by Emma Allen & David Remnick) will be out this November. Some text from the publisher: An anthology of funny, poignant, and
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Interview Of Interest: Will McPhail From Comics Beat, May 19, 2021, “Interview: Will McPhail Talks His First Graphic Novel, IN, And Why Parrots Deserve More Credit” Mr. McPhail’s drawings began appearing in The New Yorker in 2014. ______________________________________________________________ Daily Cartoonist Roundup Playing catch-up here with the Daily Cartoons: Wednesday’s Thursday’s Friday’s
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Three (Fun) Books In November My daily search for new New Yorker cartoon books turned up this pleasing line-up on Amazon this morning (all three have been mentioned on this site in the past few months). How exciting is it that we have these titles to look forward to in the Fall: Joe Dator’s Inked, out November 23rd; Liza Donnelly’s
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