From hotelchatter.com, October 28,2011, “The Algonquin Hotel to Close This Winter for Renovations” ( post includes a nice photo of the Hotel’s New Yorker cartoon wallpaper)
A short Youtube video about Joe Farris’s new book A Soldier’s Sketchbook.
From The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs, October 27, 2011, “The New Yorker’s ‘Cartoon Issue’: Bob Mankoff lets us peek behind the scenes”