Article Of Interest: Mick Stevens And Paul Karasik
From The Vineyard Gazette, August 22, 2023, “New Yorker Cartoonists Share Stories, Tips and Laughs At Featherstone”— two island cartoonists, Paul Karasik and Mick Stevens talk cartoons.
Mr. Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here.
Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. Visit his website here.
A Mick Stevens cartoon collection, and Mr. Karasik’s latest book (with Mark Newgarden):
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One small weedsy thing in the article:
“There were dozens of magazines, from the men’s magazines to the New Yorker and everything in between, and a cartoonist could walk around town with his — I say ‘his’ portfolio, tellingly,” Mr. Stevens said, acknowledging that the field was overwhelmingly male until Roz Chast made her New Yorker debut in 1978.
Editor’s note: I think it’s important to be clear that the The New Yorker, though “overwhelmingly male” was not exclusively male “until Roz Chast made her debut.” Nurit Karlin* was being published by The New Yorker at that time (having started in 1974), and there had been a number of women cartoonist contributors (sixteen until Ms. Karlin) since the magazine debuted in 1925, including one of the magazine’s most famous cartoonists, Helen Hokinson (who contributed from 1925-1949). Check out Liza Donnelly’s history of women cartoonists in The New Yorker to read their stories.
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Nurit Karlin (Photo taken at a Playboy holiday party, NYC, early 1990s). Born in Jerusalem, 1940. Died, Tel Aviv, April, 2019. New
Yorker work: 1974 – 1988. Collection: No Comment (Scribner, 1978). For more on Karlin see pp 124 -130 of Liza Donnelly’s Funny Ladies : The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus Books, 2005).