Interview Of Interest: Roger Angell
From The New Yorker, this terrif interview of Roger Angell by Willing Davidson, a senior editor at the magazine: “Baseball, Fiction, And Life: Roger Angell’s Era-spanning Career At The New Yorker”
Left: Mr. Angell, wearing the hat, with another New Yorker era-spanner, Edward Koren
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John Cuneo Sketches A Cover On A Napkin
When I meet up with cartoonists here in the Hudson Valley it’s a rare thing for any drawing to be done. Most of the time — 99.999% of the time — is spent jabbering about all kinds of things. But — there’s always a but, right? — yesterday while sitting in a bakery/coffee joint with New Yorker colleagues, Danny Shanahan and John Cuneo, John began to describe a cover he’s working on for Michael Gerber’s fab American Bystander. As the fine tip Uniball pen often cuts to the chase quicker than the spoken word, John grabbed a napkin and within seconds ( a minute at most) drew the above. Hoarder that I am, I asked him if I could have it just as he was about to crumple it up, and then asked if he would sign it. Luckily, he was agreeable-enough to both requests. I’ll run his sketch again side-by-side the finished piece once it appears on The American Bystander.
—My thanks to John Cuneo for sharing his napkin with the Spill.
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The Tilley Watch Online
An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features, February 10-14, 2020.
The Daily Cartoon: Amy Hwang, Ivan Ehlers, Kim Warp, Brendan Loper, Lila Ash.
Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (with Julia Edelman), J.A.K. (with Harris Mayersohn),
…And:
“Dinner Party” — A video with Marc Philippe Eskenazi, who was at one time an assistant in the cartoon department.