Wertz’s Sketchy Interview
Gothamist continues its Sketchy Interview series with Julia Wertz. Read it here.
Ms. Wertz first contribution to the New Yorker appeared in the issue of August 3, 2015.
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Mischa Richter”s Strictly Richter
David Pomerantz has sent along this interesting piece from 2016 about the late Mischa Richter’s strip, Strictly Richter.
A sidenote: when I interviewed Mr. Richter years ago for my Arno biography I asked him about the obvious (to me) Arno influence in his early work. Surprisingly, Richter disavowed any influence whatsoever.
Mr. Richter’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
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Mischa Richter (photo above courtesy of Sarah Geraghty Herndon). Born, Kharkov, Russia, 1910. Died, March 23, 2001. New Yorker work: January 10, 1942 – January 20, 2003 ; Key books: This One’s On Me! (McGraw-Hill, 1945) , The Cartoonist’s Muse, co-authored by Harald Bakken (Contemporary Books, 1992).