Pub Day For Send Help! And Murder Book
Two goodies out today:
Send Help!* a collection of desert island cartoons edited by New Yorker cartoonists Ellis Rosen and Jon Adams
And from New Yorker cartoonist, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Murder Book.
Info on Send Help! here *full disclosure: several of my drawings appear in this collection.
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A Sikoryak “Carousel” Of Interest
A bunch of New Yorker folks will be ridin’ Robert Sikoryak’s Carousel on November 12th. All the info you need is on the poster, but here’s a link if you wanna link.
joe Dator began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006; Hilary Campbell in 2017; Bishakh Som in 2018; Yinfan Huang in 2021. The host, Robert Sikoryak began contributing in 1999. You may remember he did the “Cartoon Takeover” Issue cover in 2019…
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Interview Of Interest…Tom Toro
From InsideHook, November 9, 2021, “The Story Behind The Nine-Year-Old New Yorker Cartoon That Defines Our Climate Moment”
Tom Toro’s Spill A-Z entry:
Tom Toro (self portrait courtesy of Mr. Toro) Born in Richmond, California on May 22, 1982. Graduated valedictorian from El Cerrito High School and matriculated to Yale. Edited cartoons for The Yale Herald and won a national championship in lightweight rowing in 2002, elected captain of the rowing team in 2004. Earned a degree cum laude in art history specializing in cinema studies. Attended NYU Film School for two years, shooting shorts and features that went to Sundance, Tribeca and Cannes. Began submitting cartoons to The New Yorker in 2007, first got published in 2010 – after the 610th try. Also a writer of literary fiction, short stories, screenplays and children’s picture books of the “unpublished” variety. [bio courtesy of Mr. Toro] New Yorker work: May 24, 2010 – .
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