Talk of Interest: Joe Dator
From The Pioneer, April 3, 2018, “New Yorker Cartoonist Shares Insight”— a piece about a recent talk at Long Island University by one of the New Yorker‘s best contemporary cartoonists (above, right, a segment of his classic piece, How We Do It from the New Yorker, September 24 2012
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A New Yorker State of Mind Looks at the Issue of March 16, 1929
This blog is enjoyable as heck. Bonus: lots of Ralph Barton in this particular post . See it here.
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Book of Interest: Van Spatz by Anna Haifisch
A book bringing together Walt Disney, Tomi Ungerer, and Steinberg? Read about their fictional intersection here.
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Arno Included in a Stanley Kubrick Photo Exhibit
An exhibit of Stanley Kubrick’s photos for Look magazine will open May 3rd at the Museum of the City of New York. Peter Arno will be among the subjects on display. Kubrick spent three days photographing Arno in late July 1949. As I wrote in my Arno bio: “The photographs amount to the best visual insight we’ll likely ever have into Arno’s private life…”
I used two photos from the Museum’s Kubrick collection in the Arno bio; one appears on the back cover shown above (that’s the actress Joan Sinclair he’s with at Joan Braun’s Palace Bar). You can see all the photos — nearly 300 — in the Museum’s collection here.
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Cartoon Companion Rates This Week’s New Yorker Cartoons
It wouldn’t be Friday without a brand new Cartoon Companion (well, it would be, but never mind). The CC’s “Max” and “Simon” return with a rated close look at the cartoons appearing in the issue of April 9, 2018 (it’s the one with the Bruce McCall gluten themed cover). It’s always fun to see how much one agrees or disagrees with their ratings.