Faces & Facts
Here’s a great little book I picked up quite a ways back during my research for the Peter Arno biography. Faces & Facts By And About 26 Contemporary Artists was privately printed in 1937 (just 526 copies) with an introduction by James Montgomery Flagg and “biographies” by Willis Birchman. Each biography is given a page, and opposite each biography is the subject’s self portrait. Here’s Birchman’s Thurber biography:
This book is still available. Copies semi-abound on AbeBooks.com.
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Interview Of Interest
From Eatmynews, January 28, 2021, “Navied Mahdavian — The Act Of Creating Art Myself Has Only Deepened My Passion”
Mr. Mahdavian has been contributing to The New Yorker since February of 2018.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Evan Lian on Gamestop.
Mr. Lian began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 2019. Visit his website here.
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