Happy 85th Edward Koren!
Birthday wishes to one of the greatest New Yorker artists, Edward Koren, born on this day in 1935. Mr. Koren, now in his 58th year of contributing to the magazine, is The New Yorker‘s longest running regular cartoonist contributor.
Here’s Mr. Koren’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of Gil Roth) Born, 1935. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon, 1980), Caution: Small Ensembles (Pantheon, 1983), What About Me? (Pantheon Books, 1989). Website: edwardkoren.com
Mr. Koren’s latest cartoon collection is In The Wild, published by Button Street Press.
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 7- 11, 2020
An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Robert Leighton, Madeline Horwath: a solo Daily as well as a duo effort with Ellis Rosen; Emily Flake; Amy Hwang.
Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes (The New Yorker‘s assistant cartoon editor) and Ella Quittner; cartoonist, Lila Ash, and Ginny Hogan; cover artist, Jenny Kroik.
Culture Desk: From Bruce McCall, “My Life In Cars.”
Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “An Acme Farewell To A Cartoon President”
All of the above, and so much more, can be found here.
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More Stevenson
From the Greenwich Sentinel, December 11, 2020, “James Stevenson’s ‘Children’s Book Art’ Brings Wit And Humor In New Bruce Exhibit”
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A Cartoon Captioning Contest of Note
All the info here concerning the above Liza Donnelly cartoon in need of a caption.