From the Comics Journal continuing series Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist, this must read interview by Richard Gehr: “Lee Lorenz, Cartoonist, Editor, Writer, Jazzbo”
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Another from the Cartoon Attic: Whither Whither, or After Sex What?
Whither Whither, or After Sex What? Edited by Walter S. Hankel (1930, The Macaulay Co., NY) I’ve always loved this book more for its cover than its content. It was published just five years after the birth of The New Yorker, and a year before Thurber’s first drawing appeared in the magazine (January of 1931). That isn’t to
Read moreInterview: R.O. Blechman
From The Comics Journal, May 26, 2011, Jeet Heer interviews R. O. Blechman
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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