Tuesday Spill: A Peter Steiner Exhibit; Paul Karasik Celebrates MAD’s Harvey Kurtzman

A Peter Steiner Exhibit

This will be fun. Peter Steiner began contributing to The New Yorker in the issue of July 9, 1979. Visit his website here.

Peter Steiner’s A-Z Entry:

Peter Steiner. Born, Cincinnati, 1940. New Yorker work: July 9, 1979 — . Collection: “I Didn’t Bite the Man, I Bit the Office” ( 1994). Mr. Steiner is responsible for one of the most famous (and most republished) New Yorker cartoons in modern times, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” (published July 5, 1993). An indication of its enduring popularity in our culture: a wikipedia page is devoted to it. He has also had novels published, as well as the limited edition “An Atheist in Heaven.”  Key cartoon collection: I Didn’t Bite The Man. I Bit The Office. Washington Times, 1994. 

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Paul Karasik Celebrates MAD’s Harvey Kurtzman

 

Paul Karasik, who began contributing drawings to The New Yorker in the issue of July 19, 1999, is participating in a 100th birthday celebration for Harvey Kurtzman over at Comics Journal.  Read Mr. Karasik’s piece “Hey Look!: An Appreciation and Retrospective” here.

Link here to Mr. Karasik’s website.

— Above: a panel from Mr. Karasik’s Comics Journal Kurtzman tribute.

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